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CHINA 

CUBA 

JAPAN 

KOREA 

MEXICO 

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1819. 


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1819— THE  BEGINNING  OF  ORGANIZED  MISSIONS  IN 
EPISCOPAL  METHODISM 
1919— THE  CENTENARY  OF  MISSIONS 


Missionary  Centenary 

Eighteen  Nineteen ---{Nineteen  ZNjneteen 

WORLD  SURVEY 

A c Program  of 
Spiritual  Strategy  and 
c Preparedness 


MISSIONARY  CENTENARY  COMMISSION 
METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH,  SOUTH 

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COME  OVER  AND  HELP  US 


THE  PATHFINDERS 


"AND  A LITTLE  CHILD  SHALL  LEAD  THEM ” 


FROM  CANNIBALISM  TO  CIVILI2ATI  ON 


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Africa 


“ Though  a thousand  fall,  let  not  Africa  be  given  up.”  ( Melville  Cox.) 

GENERAL  SURVEY 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us. 

To  assume  our  share  in  the  evangelization  of  the  15,000,000  Africans  in 
the  Belgian  Congo,  one-third  the  size  of  the  United  States  and  with 
immense  natural  resources  for  the  support  of  a great  population. 

To  co-operate  with  other  missions  in  reaching  the  more  than  one  hundred 
tribes,  in  reducing  the  languages  to  writing,  and  the  education  and 
elevation  of  an  ignorant  and  superstitious  people. 

To  educate  and  train  a body  of  native  teachers  and  evangelists  through 
whom  the  remotest  villages  can  be  reached  and  a native  Church  estab- 
lished which  shall  be  self-supporting  and  self-propagating. 

II.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Send  10  men  and  8 women  within  the  next  five  years.  Two  of  the  10 
men  should  be  doctors,  and  two  of  the  8 women  should  be  nurses. 

Train  100  teachers  and  50  evangelists. 

Build  14  houses  for  missionaries,  4 schoolhouses,  and  53  churches,  the 
churches  being  built  by  native  contributions  of  material  and  labor. 

Build  3 workshops  and  3 small  hospitals,  the  latter  having  accommoda- 
tions for  from  eight  to  ten  beds. 

Set  up  a small  printing  press  for  lesson  sheets,  tracts,  and  printing  the 
Scriptures  in  Batetela. 

Provide  a small  steamer  for  transportation  of  missionaries  and  supplies 
on  the  tributaries  of  the  Kasai  and  Sankuru  Rivers. 


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Africa 

"With  the  remarkable  providence  which  attended  the  footsteps  of  Prof.  John  Wesley 
Gilbert  and  myself  here  in  a sitay  of  seven  months  and  a journey  of  five  thousand  miles  in 
the  interior  of  Africa,  and  with  the  splendid  response  made  by  our  Church  to  the  call  for 
men  and  money  for  the  maintenance  of  the  mission,  we  cannot  but  be  convinced  that  the 
Lord  of  hosts  is  with  us  and  is  leading  our  Church  in  the  evangelization  of  the  'Dark 
Continent.'  " (W . R.  Lambuth.) 


EVANGELISTIC  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us. 

We  are  responsible  for  the  evangelization  of  the  Batetela  tribe,  200,000 
strong,  between  the  Lomami  and  Sankuru  Rivers  and  south  of  the 
equator.  This  is  a tribe  of  powerful  men  and  women  physically,  who 
are  canibalistic,  but  who  live  by  hunting,  fishing,  and  tilling  the  soil. 
They  are  found  in  well-built  villages,  in  the  forest  along  the  streams, 
and  in  the  open  veldt. 


II.  What  We  Are  Now  Doing 

Two  men  and  one  woman,  with  the  help  of  two  native  evangelists,  are 
engaged  in  evangelistic  work.  They  are  carrying  on  daily  Bible 
classes  at  the  station,  preaching  in  neighboring  villages,  and  traveling 
two  circuits. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do. 

Send  6 men  and  3 women  for  evangelistic  work. 

Establish  a central  training  school  for  evangelists  and  a Bible  training 
class  at  each  station. 

Reach  with  the  Gospel  every  village  within  the  distance  of  five  days’ 
walk. 


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Africa 

*7  go  back  to  Africa  to  try  to  mak • an  open  path  for  commerce  and  Christianity. 

Do  you  carry  out  the  9ork  9hich  I have  begun?"  (David  Livingstone.) 

EDUCATIONAL  WORK. 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us. 

To  teach  men,  women  and  children  on  and  near  the  mission  station  to 
read  and  write  their  own  language. 

To  establish  a school  for  the  training  of  native  teachers  and  evangelists, 
who  can  be  sent  to  the  villages  in  the  outlying  districts. 

To  teach  the  Scriptures  thoroughly  and  systematically  to  every  Church 
member  and  workman  employed  by  the  mission. 

To  inculcate  the  necessity  of  labor  both  as  an  economic  factor  and  a 
means  of  building  tribal  character. 

To  teach  French,  which  is  the  official  langage  of  the  Belgian  Congo. 

II.  What  We  Have 

Two  men,  educational  and  industrial,  and  one  woman  missionary. 

Daily  iastruction  in  reading  and  writing  and  a Bible  class  taught  by  one 
of  the  missionaries. 

A training  school  for  teachers  and  evangelists. 

The  beginning  of  industrial  training. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do. 

Send  2 educational  missionaries  for  the  central  station  and  2 women 
teachers  for  the  new  station. 

Establish  an  industrial  and  agricultural  school  for  self-helf  and  charac- 
ter-building. 

Establish  25  village  schools. 


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Africa 

“We  feel  wonderfully  encouraged  by  the  prospects.”  (D.  L.  Mumpower.) 


MEDICAL  WORK. 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us. 

The  medical  missionary  must  combat  tropical  fevers,  dysentery,  p»e«~ 
monia,  and  sleeping  sickness.  Venereal  and  skin  diseases  are  preva- 
lent, also  hookworm  and  intestinal  parasites. 

To  utiilze  medicine  and  surgery  as  the  most  effective  means  of  removing 
prejudice,  overcoming  superstition,  and  winning  the  confidence  of  the 
people. 

II.  What  We  Have 

One  medical  missionary,  Dr.  D.  L.  Mumpower,  who,  as  superintendent, 
is  burdened  with  the  responsibility  of  the  mission.  He  should  have  a 
colleague  at  once. 

One  trained  nurse. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do. 

Provide  2 additional  doctors  and  2 nurses. 

Build  and  equip  two  small  hospitals. 

The  mission  should  also  be  furnished  with  a dentist,  who  might  give  half 
of  his  time  to  the  Methodist  and  half  to  the  Presbyterian  mission,  five 
hundred  miles  to  the  west  of  us. 


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Africa 

EFFICIENCY  PROGRAM  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

(In  addition  to  present  income) 

1919-1923 

GENERAL  WORK 

From  From 

Fvangelistic  Educational  Medical  Total  Africa  Home  Base 

Land  and  property..$  58.000  $ 8.000  $10,000  $ 76,000  $ 76,000 

Budget 44.500  33,000  35,000  112.500  112,500 

$102,500  $41,000  $45,000  $188,500  $188,500 


Analysis  of  Above 


EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

MEDICAL 

3 station  churches. 

2 missionary  teachers. 

2 medical  missionaries. 

30  Tillage  churches. 

100  native  teachers. 

1 dentist. 

6 missionaries. 

2 schoolhouses. 

2 hospitals. 

6 parsonages. 

50  native  evangelists. 

1 industrial  and  agricul- 
tural school. 

Miscellaneous: 

1 Bible  school. 

3 workshops. 

1 steamer. 

1 printing  press. 

25  village  schools. 

1 captain. 

WOMAN’S  WORK 


From  From 

Evangelistic  Educational  Medical  Total  Africa  Home  Base 

Land  and  property..  $ 1,500  $ 1,000  $ 1,000  $ 3,500  $ 3,500 

Budget 15,750  10,500  10,500  36,750  36,750 

$17,250  $11,500  $11,500  $40,250  $40,250 


Analysis  of  Above 


EVANGELISTIC 

3 women  missionaries. 
2 houses. 

1 Bible  school. 


EDUCATIONAL 

2 women  missionaries. 

1 girls’  school  building. 


MEDICAL 

2 nurses’  equipment. 


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MAP  OF 

SOUTH  AMERICA 

TINTED  PORTION  OUR  TERRITORY 


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WOMAN’S  WORK  SCHOOLS. 
Ribeirao  Preto:  Methodist  College. 

Hello  Horizonte:  Isabella  llendrix  Col- 
lege. 

Piracicaba:  Piracicaba  College. 
Petropolis:  American  College. 

Porto  Alegre:  American  College. 

GENERAL  BOARD  SCHOOLS. 

Jui/.  de  Fora:  Granbcr.v  College. 
Uruguayana:  Union  College. 
Institutional  Churches  in  Rio  do  Janeiro 
and  Porto  Alegre. 


Our  ally  in  the  present  war.  Let  us  make  her  our  ally  in 
the  conquest  of  the  world  for  Christ. 


Brazil 

“ South  America  the  Continent  of  Opportunity." 

GENERAL  SURVEY 
I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  give  the  Gospel  to  10,000,000  people  for  whom  Southern  Methodism 
is  wholly  responsible.  These  people  are  nominally  Christians,  but 
have  no  personal  knowledge  of  salvation  through  Jesus  Christ. 

To  develop  and  train  an  efficient  number  of  native  preachers,  on  whom 
depends  almost  entirely  the  evangelization  of  Brazil. 

To  make  our  present  Publishing  House  an  adequate  and  efficient  plant, 
w'orthy  of  the  cause  represented. 

To  increase  the  number  of  parochial  schools  and  to  put  all  our  schools  on 
an  efficiency  basis. 

To  put  greater  emphasis  on  industrial  work  for  boys  and  girls. 


II.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Send  43  men  and  30  women  missionaries  within  the  next  five  years. 
Provide  for  1 native  dentist,  1 native  doctor,  and  2 parochial  teachers. 
Develop  42  native  preachers  and  35  native  teachers. 

Build  and  equip  9 1 churches,  1 7 parsonages,  1 8 parochial  schools,  and 
3 Sunday  school  buildings. 

Erect  buildings  and  provide  a campus  for  Granbery  College. 

Establish  1 publishing  plant. 

Provide  funds  for  evangelistic  campaigns  and  increase  salaries  of  native 
preachers. 


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Brazil 

“ Brazil  is  a big  country — bigger  than  all  the  United  States,  bigger  than  the  whole 
of  Europe.  It  is  half  of  South  America.”  The  North  Georgia  Conference  has  as 
many  members  in  it  as  there  are  Protestant  preachers  of  all  faiths  in  Brazil. 

EVANGELISTIC  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

There  are  1 0,000,000  people  for  whom  Methodism  is  responsible.  Dis- 
tances are  great,  and  there  is  much  travel  on  horseback,  similar  to 
Asbury’s  day  in  American  Methodism. 

When  the  republic  was  declared,  in  1889,  the  Church  was  separated 
from  the  State.  The  priesthood,  thrown  on  its  own  resources,  has 
made  and  is  making  a desperate  effort,  in  the  face  of  growing 
Protestantism,  to  hold  its  own. 

II.  What  We  Are  Now  Doing 

Forty-four  men  and  two  women  are  in  evangelistic  work. 

The  time  and  strength  of  these  missionaries  are  required  to  look  after 
the  work  already  organized. 

With  our  present  force  of  men  and  women  we  can  do  nothing  toward 
reaching  the  great  stretches  of  unoccupied  territory. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do. 

Send  31  evangelistic  missionaries,  12  deaconesses  and  Bible  women,  and 
develop  42  native  preachers. 

Establish  Bible  institutes  for  men  and  women. 

Give  a better  training  to  our  leadership  in  the  Union  Bible  School. 


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Brazil 

Christian  schools  are  necessary  for  the  maintenance  of  faith  as  n >ell  qs  for  the  devel- 
opment of  a Christian  leadership. 

EDUCATIONAL  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  provide  educational  facilities  for  the  children  of  our  Church. 

To  develop  a capable  leadership  prepared  to  handle  the  demands  of  a 
great  work. 

II.  What  We  Have 

Cranberry  College,  for  boys,  in  the  State  of  Minas  Geraes. 

Union  College,  for  boys,  in  Rio  Grande  do  Sul. 

Piracicaba  College  and  Methodist  College,  for  girls,  in  the  State  of  Sao 
Paulo. 

American  College,  for  girls,  Petropolis. 

Isabella  Hendrix  College,  for  girls,  in  the  State  of  Minas  Geraes. 
American  College,  for  girls,  in  Rio  Grande  do  Sul. 

A seminary  and  two  professional  schools  (pharmacy  and  dentistry). 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do. 

Send  15  missionary  teachers  and  develop  35  native  teachers. 

Do  our  share  in  co-operating  with  other  evangelical  Churches  and  form 
a union  seminary. 

Establish  an  evangelical  university. 

Put  on  an  efficiency  basis  Granbery  College  by  manning  and  endowing  it 
properly. 

Found  an  industrial  and  agricultural  school. 

Create  33  parochial  schools. 


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Brazil 

MEDICAL  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

There  is  need  of  clinic  work  in  our  institutional  Churches ; otherwise  there 
is  not  much  medical  work  to  be  done. 

The  emphasis  given  to  medical  work  in  other  fields  should  be  turned  to 
our  Publishing  House  plant.  This  is  one  of  the  crying  needs  of 
Brazil. 


II.  What  We  Have 

There  is  an  evangelical  hospital  in  Rio  de  Janeiro  patronized  and  kept 
up  by  the  various  denominations. 

The  clinic  of  dentistry  and  pharmacy  at  People’s  Institute,  Rio  de 
Janeiro. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Provide  1 doctor  and  1 dentist. 

Build  1 day  nursery  and  1 convalescent  home. 


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Brazil 

EFFICIENCY  PROGRAM  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

(In  addition  to  present  income) 

1919-1923 

GENERAL  WORK 

From  From 

^ Evangelistic  Educational  Medical  Total  Brazil  Home  Base 

Fland  a.n...$387,550  $345,500  $75,000  $ 758,050  $170,080  $ 587,970 

Budget  472,150  149,950  9,000  631,100  148,200  482,900 

Publishing 

interests  71,800  71,800  3,000  68,800 


$931,500  $495,450  $84,000  $1,460,950  $321,280  $1,139,670 


Analysis  of  Above 

EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

MEDICAL 

78  churches. 

1 6 missionary  teachers. 

1 doctor  (native). 

1 2 parsonages. 

Enlargement  of  Granbery 

1 dentist 

1 Publishing  House. 

College. 

Clinical  service  for  People’s 

1 Bible  school. 

1 8 parochial  schools. 

Institute,  Rio  de  Janeiro. 

22  missionaries. 

Share  in  Union  Seminary. 

WOMAN’S  WORK 


Evangelistic  Educational  Medical 

From 

Total  Brazil 

From 

Home  Base 

Property  and  land.. 

$680,000  

$680,000  

$680,000 

Budget  

105,000  

105,000  

105,000 

$785,000  

$785,000  

$785,000 

Analysis  of  Above 

EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

MEDICAL 

30  new  missionaries,  to  be 
distributed  according  to 
the  needs  of  the  field. 

Girls’  school  in: 
Rio  de  Janeiro. 
Porto  Alegre. 
Petropolis. 
Piracicaba. 

Bello  Horizonte. 
Ribeirao  Preto. 

NOTE. — The  above  figures  represent  the  total  askings  for  the  two  Brazilian  Conferences. 


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CHIN  A • 

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MAP  OF 

CHINA 

TINTED  PORTION  OUR  TERRITORY 


Shanghai:  China’s  Commercial  Center;  population,  1,000,000. 
Hoochow:  China’s  Intellectual  Center;  population,  000,000. 
Iludiow:  China’s  Silk  Center;  population,  200,000. 

The  key  centers  to  over  twenty  million  people. 

Southern  Methodism’s  work  in  China,  is  noted  for  its  com- 
pactness, intensiveness,  correlation,  and  success.  Study  it. 


China 

"If  our  great  Church  could  hear  the  cry  one  hundred  years  ago,  if  the  hearts  of  our 
forefathers  were  touched  then,  surely  our  hearts  should  be  stirred  now  by  China’s  Mace- 
donian call.” 

GENERAL  SURVEY 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

A mighty  nation  in  the  throes  of  a new  birth. 

The  old  educational  system  has  proven  insufficient.  A new  one  is  in 
process  of  formation,  promising  intellectual  freedom  to  women  as  well 
as  to  men. 

Old  faiths,  traditions,  and  superstitions  show  signs  of  a mighty  collapse. 

Buddhists,  imitating  Christianity’s  practical  propaganda,  seek  to  revive 
their  religion  in  the  hearts  of  the  people. 

Christianity,  once  despised  and  persecuted,  is  now  looked  to  for  guidance 
and  leadership. 

Christian  schools  are  overflowing. 

Churches  and  chapels  are  not  sufficient  to  accommodate  the  crowds. 

The  need  for  Christian  doctors  and  hospitals  was  never  greater. 

Christianity  can  control  China’s  change  and  supply  all  the  demands,  intel- 
lectual and  spiritual,  necessary  for  the  future  progress  and  betterment 
of  the  Chinese  people. 


II.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Equip  our  evangelistic  work  with  missionaries,  both  men  and  women. 

Build  churches,  chapels,  institutional  plants. 

Enlarge  and  perfect  our  great  educational  system. 

Provide  the  means  and  men  to  bear  our  part  in  making  Christian  literature 
for  a nation  whose  people  are  literary  and  yet  whose  literature  knows 
nothing  of  a Christ,  and  to  give,  as  far  as  possible,  to  this  great  reading 
public  of  China  a literature  which  shall  instruct  the  people  in  the  ways 
of  truth  and  righteousness  and  shall  inspire  all  to  the  greatest  endeavor. 

Build  and  conduct  hospitals  and  medical  schools  to  minister  to  China’s 
millions  in  misery. 

Develop  native  leadership  in  all  branches  of  work,  with  an  indigenous, 
self-supporting,  and  self-propagating  Church  as  an  ultimate  aim. 


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China 

“ We  must  advance  or  in  the  near  future  be  left  standing  on  the  outside  of  closed  doors." 

EVANGELISTIC  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  give  the  Gospel  adequately  to  the  more  than  20,000,000  among 
whom  we  labor. 

To  train  more  Chinese  leaders  and  develop  the  latent  powers  and  re- 
sources of  the  growing  Chinese  Church  until  the  same  shall  become  a 
self-supporting,  self-propagating,  and  indigenous  Church. 

II.  What  We  Are  Now  Doing 

Developing  the  most  comprehensive  and  connectional  system  of  aggressive 
evangelism  in  that  section  of  China. 

Producing  trained  Chinese  leaders  in  Church  and  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  and 
kindred  activities. 

Building  up  a rapidly  increasing  membership,  steadily  progressing  in  self- 
support. 

Conducting  Bible-training  schools  for  both  men  and  women. 

Sharing  in  a Union  Theological  Seminary. 

III.  What  We  Propose  To  Do 

Send  1 1 men  and  1 4 women  for  evangelistic  work. 

Erect  churches,  institutional  plants,  and  chapels  sufficient  and  of  such  a 
quality  as  to  command  the  respect  of  the  Chinese. 


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China 

"The  Christian  college  in  China  is  a great  field  for  the  true  democratization  of  J joung  men.” 


EDUCATIONAL  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  enlarge  and  perfect  the  system  already  in  existence,  the  purpose  of 
which  is  to  give  a complete  course  of  instruction  and  training,  reaching 
from  the  primary  school  through  the  college,  and  to  indoctrinate,  as 
far  as  possible,  the  entire  student  body  with  the  principles  and  teach- 
ings of  Christ,  thus  preparing  all  for  the  highest  citizenship  and  serv- 
ice in  both  Church  and  State. 


II.  What  We  Have 

“The  Soochow  University  system,”  a correlated  system  of  education 
from  primary  up  to  and  through  college. 

Primary  schools  at  many  of  the  out-stations. 

Middle  schools  at  some  of  our  missionary  stations. 

A compact,  well-organized,  and  efficient  college  at  Soochow. 

At  Shanghai  the  only  law  school  in  all  of  China  under  mission  auspices, 
an  integral  part  of  the  Soochow  University  system,  with  large 
potentiality. 

McTyeire  Memorial,  at  Shanghai,  the  leading  school  for  young  women 
in  China. 

Virginia  School,  a first-class  high  school,  at  Huchow. 

Susan  B.  Wilson,  a high-grade  grammar  school,  at  Sungkiang. 

Laura  Haygood  Normal  School ; also  day  schools  at  Changchow. 


III.  What  We  Propose  To  Do 

Send  15  men  and  10  women  for  educational  work. 

Establish  more  primary  middle  schools. 

Establish  vocational  and  industrial  schools. 

Supply  26  Chinese  teachers  for  General  Board  work. 

Supply  25  Chinese  teachers  for  woman’s  work. 

Equip  for  efficiency  all  of  our  schools,  especially  those  for  the  training  of 
preachers  and  leaders. 


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China 

The  medical  missionary  is  often  the  first  messenger  of  Christ  to  lpiocl(  at  the  door  of  the 

heathen  heart. 


MEDICAL  WORK 
I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  bring  to  the  masses  who  are  afflicted  with  plagues,  cholera,  diphtheria, 
and  like  the  diseases,  the  healing  touch  of  Western  medicine. 

To  bring  the  blessing  of  surgery  as  it  is  practiced  in  Western  schools  to 
the  suffering  multitudes. 

To  teach  the  public  the  principles  of  sanitation  and  other  methods  of 
wholesome  living. 

To  establish  hospitals  and  nurse-training  schools  and  to  assist  in  estab- 
lishing medical  colleges  for  men  and  young  women. 

I.  What  We  Have 

A hospital  at  Soochow. 

A hospital  at  Huchow. 

III.  What  We  Propose  To  Do 

Send  out  9 physicians  and  24  nurses  for  General  Board  work. 

Enlarge  existing  plants. 

Build  and  equip  a hospital  at  Changchow. 

Build  and  equip  a hospital  at  Sungkiang. 

For  women:  Enlarge  the  medical  school  and  move  it,  together  with  the 
Mary  Black  Hospital  and  Nurse-Training  School,  to  Shanghai. 

Send  8 women  physicians  and  3 nurses. 


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China 

EFFICIENCY  PROGRAM  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

(In  addition  to  present  income) 

1919-1923 

GENERAL  WORK 

From  From 

Evangelistic  Educational  Medical  Total  China  Horn  Ease 

P r operty  and 

land  $431,100  $271,700  $205,400  $ 908,200  $135,450  $ 772,750 

Budget  102,890  190,465  114,000  407,355  106,240  301,115 

Literary  work....  9,250  9,250  9,250 

$543,240  $462,165  $319,400  $1,324,805  $241,690  $1,083,115 


Analysis  of  Above 


EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

MEDICAL 

Erect  churches,  institution- 
al and  otherwise,  and 
chapels  sufficient  and  of 
such  quality  as  to  com- 
mand the  respect  of  the 
Chinese. 

Send  out  1 1 missionaries. 

Establish  more  primary  and 
middle  schools. 

1 5 educational  mission- 
aries. 

Supply  26  Chinese  teach- 
ers. 

Equip  all  schools,  especial- 
ly those  for  the  training 
of  preachers  and  leaders. 

Build  and  equip: 

Hospitals  atChangehow. 
Hospitals  at  Sungkiang. 
Send  out  9 physicians  and 
24  nurses. 

WOMAN’S  WORK 


From  From 

Evangelistic  Educational  Medical  Total  China  Home  Base 

Property  and  land $ 30,575  $ 75,291  $409,900  $515,766  $50,140  $465,626 

Budget  106,430  43,460  112,250  262.140  262,140 


$137,005  $118,751  $522,150  $777,906  $50,140  $727,766 


Analysis  of  Above 


EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

MEDICAL 

1 8 missionaries. 

1 0 missionaries. 

8 doctors. 

Sungkiang  Bible  School. 

McTyeire  Primary  School 

3 nurses. 

Huchow  Bible  School 

land. 

1 business  manager. 

workers. 

McTyeire  main  building. 

1 evangelist. 

Soochow  city  evangelistic 
work. 

McTyeire  primary  and 
evangelistic  work. 

Allen  Memorial  Chapel. 
Virginia  School  equipment. 
Laura  Haygood  Normal 
equipment. 

Davidson  School  teachers, 
etc. 

Mary  Black  Hospital  and 
Nurse-Training  School, 
Shanghai. 

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Havana:  Candler  College. 
Matanzas:  Irene  Toland  School. 
Cienfuegos:  Eliza  Bowman  School. 
Caniaguey:  Pinson  College. 


Cuba 

"Taking  stock  after  eighteen  years  of  organized  missionary  activities,  tvc  are  encour- 
aged by  the  results.  Yet  as  rve  look  upon  the  field  and  realize  that  relatively  such  a small 
per  cent  has  been  reached,  ive  feel  more  than  ever  the  pressure  of  our  responsibility." 

GENERAL  SURVEY 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  overcome  the  religious  indifference  which  is  prevalent  throughout  the 
Island. 

To  combat  the  alarming  spread  of  “isms.” 

To  discharge  our  evangelistic  responsibility  to  one-third  of  the  popula- 
tion. 

To  combat  the  increasing  spread  of  immorality. 

To  help  develop  a worthy  leadership  imbued  with  Christian  ideals. 

II.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Maintain  an  island-wide,  organized,  systematic,  aggressive  evangelism. 
Develop  native  pastoral  leadership  to  the  highest  degree  of  efficiency. 

Occupy,  as  early  as  possible,  the  remainder  of  the  territory  for  which 
Methodism  is  responsible. 

Maintain  our  present  high  standard  in  education. 

Strengthen  existing  schools  and  colleges  and  establish  parochial  schools 
as  evangelistic  agencies  and  as  feeders  for  our  higher  schools. 

Help  create  and  publish  an  adequate  evangelical  literature. 


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Cuba 


“ Evangelism  from  the  opening  of  the  mission  has  been  a first  consideration  of  the 
missionaries.  The  possibilities  and  opportunities  for  evangelism  are  almost  unlimited.'' 

A CAMPAIGN  ON  A LARGE  SCALE  IS  SORELY  NEEDED 


EVANGELISTIC  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  reach  the  untouched  masses.  Only  one  person  in  two  hundred  of  the 
population  is  an  evangelical  Christian. 

To  reach  the  number  for  which  Southern  Methodism  is  responsible — 
860,0000  our  share.  Only  4,000  have  been  reached. 

To  GIVE  THE  CUBAN  PEOPLE  BIBLICAL  CHRISTIANITY;  TO  GUIDE 
THEM  INTO  AN  INTELLECTUAL  CONCEPTION  AND  ACCEPTANCE  OF 
CHRIST  AS  THEIR  ONLY  HOPE  OF  SALVATION. 

To  evangelize  the  many  easily  accessible  and  unoccupied  small  towns 
yet  unreached. 

To  foster  self-support  and  self-propagation  of  the  native  Church. 

II.  What  We  Are  Now  Doing 

Seven  missionaries  and  ten  Cuban  preachers  give  full  time  to  pastoral 
work. 

Seven  missionaries  and  two  native  preachers  give  part  time  to  evangelis- 
tic work. 

Each  evangelistic  missionary  and  native  preacher  is  responsible  for 

40,000. 

Special  series  of  evangelistic  meetings  of  the  revival  type  are  being  con- 
ducted. 


III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Increase  our  force  by  four  missionaries. 

Put  into  service  as  pastors  seven  Cuban  preachers. 

Press  evangelism  in  the  Sunday  school. 

Inaugurate  institutional  features  wherever  feasible. 

Provide  thorough  training  of  native  ministry  in  Candler  College  and  in 
Bible  and  Theological  Institutes. 


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Cuba 

"We  are  still  trying  to  train  native  leaders,  equip  all  students  for  general  usefulness, 
diffuse  Christian  ideas  and  ideals,  and  uplift  the  community  life.  THE  SCHOOLS 
ARE  CREATING  AN  ATMOSPHERE  IN  WHICH  GENUINE  EVANGELI- 
CAL TRUTH  CAN  LIVE  AND  CROW." 


EDUCATIONAL  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  leaven  the  mass  of  600,000  Cuban  children  with  Christian  doctrine. 
To  provide  Christian  education  for  the  children  of  our  Church. 

To  maintain  our  present  high  standard  in  education. 

To  train  boys  and  girls  to  become  leaders  in  Church,  community,  and 
State. 

To  strengthen  existing  schools  and  colleges. 

To  establish  parochial  and  common  schools. 

To  promote  the  founding  of  Christian  homes  by  educating  both  boys 
and  girls. 


II.  What  We  Have 

Candler  College  High  School,  for  boys  and  for  ministerial  training, 
Puentes  Grandes,  Havana. 

Candler  College  Grammar  School,  for  boys  and  girls,  Virtudes  10, 
Havana. 

Pinson  College,  for  boys  and  girls,  Camaguey. 

Irene  Toland  Schools,  grammar  and  high  school  for  girls,  Matanzas. 
Eliza  Bowman  School,  for  boys  and  girls,  Cienfuegos. 


III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Send  eight  missionary  teachers  and  provide  for  more  native  teachers. 
Double  the  present  capacity  of  boarding  schools  for  both  boys  and  girls 
and  complete  their  equipment. 

Establish  immediately  three  parochial  schools  in  provincial  capitals  and 
others  later  in  large  towns. 

Strengthen  the  Ministerial  Training  Department  of  Candler  College. 
Train  teachers  for  our  parochial  schools. 


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Cuba 

“Good  literature,  adapted  to  the  needs  and  intellectual  conditions  of  the  people,  is  a 
prime  necessity  for  the  evangelization  of  any  country.” 


LITERATURE 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  help  create  an  adequate  evangelical  literature  in  Spanish. 

To  finish  paying  for  our  Publishing  House  in  Havana. 

To  thoroughly  equip  our  Publishing  House. 

To  maintain  a depository  of  evangelical  and  other  good  books  and 
pamphlets  in  the  Spanish  language. 

To  provide  an  abundance  of  tract  and  leaflet  literature  in  Spanish. 


II.  What  We  Have 

A mission  organ,  El  Evangelista  Cubano  (“The  Cuban  Evangelist”), 
published  twice  a month,  Spanish  and  English. 

A Sunday  school  quarterly,  Revista  Trimestral,  in  Spanish;  circulation 

2,500. 

Half  million  pages  of  tracts  circulated  in  one  year. 

El  Testigo  (“The  Witness”),  Publishing  House  in  Havana. 
Thoroughly  equip  the  Publishing  House  at  Havana. 


III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Thoroughly  equip  the  Publishing  House  at  Havana  and  free  it  from 
present  embarrassments. 

Provide  two  men  giving  full  time  to  the  editing  and  publishing  of  evan- 
gelical literature. 

Improve  existing  publications  and  make  a drive  for  largely  increased 
circulation. 

Publish  one  million  pages  of  tracts  and  leaflets  a year  for  free  distribution. 


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Cuba 

EFFICIENCY  PROGRAM  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

(In  addition  to  present  income) 

1919-1923 

GENERAL  WORK 

From  From 

Evangelistic  Educations!  Literature  Total  Cuba  Home  Baae 

Property  andland  $ 90,750  $182,750  $273,500  $34,500  $239,000 

Budget 52,600  32,390  3,000  87,990  31,580  56,410 


Totals $143,350  $215,140  $3,000  $361,490  $66,080  $295,410 


Analysis  of  Above 

EVANGELISTIC 

4 missionaries. 

7 Cuban  preachers. 
Institutional  plant,  Havana. 
3 new  church  buildings. 

8 parsonages. 

EDUCATIONAL 

5 missionary  teachers. 

8 Cuban  teachers. 

2 schools  to  be  housed. 

5 new  schools. 

Double  the  capacity  of 
Candler  College. 

Double  the  capacity  of 
Pinson  College. 

LITERATURE 

Publishing  House  and 
Book  Depository  in 
Havana. 

WOMAN’S  WORK 

Evangelistic  Educational  Literature 

Property  and  land $102,450  

Budget  57,000  

From  From 

Total  Mexico  Horne  Base. 

$102,450 

57,000 

Totals  .... 

$159,450  

$159,450 

Analysis  of  Above 

EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

3 missionaries. 

7 native  teachers. 

Double  the  capacity  of 
Eliza  Bowman  School, 
Cienfuegos. 

Double  the  capacity  of 
Irene  Toland  College, 
Matanzas. 

Put  domestic  science  in 
both  schools. 

LITERATURE 

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MAP  OF 

JAPAN 

TINTED  PORTION  OUR  TERRITORY 

The  gateway  of  commerce  and  travel  he. 
tween  America  and  Asia. 
Strategic  mission  field  of  the  world. 


Kyoto:  Ancient,  capital.  Population,  500,- 

000. 

Osaka:  Population,  1,400,000. 

Kobe:  Kwansei  Gakuin,  Palmore  Gakuin, 
Damhuth  Memorial  Itihlc  Woman’s 
School.  Population,  010,000. 

Hiroshima:  Hiroshima  Girls’  School. 


The  territory  covered  by  our  mission  bus  a population  of 
twelve  million. 

Of  the  five  largest  cities  of  Japan,  three  are  within  our 
boundaries. 


Japan 

“ The  Key  to  the  Orient.”  So  recognized  by  the  American  and  other  "world  powers. 

GENERAL  SURVEY 
I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  give  the  Gospel  to  a people  eager  for  the  elements  of  Christian  civil- 
ization. 

To  reach  the  young  life  of  New  Japan,  upon  which  the  old  religions  have 
very  little  hold. 

To  meet  the  new  evils  appearing  from  every  side  because  of  the  rapidly 
changing  industrial  and  social  conditions  accelerated  by  the  trade 
expansion  caused  by  the  present  war. 

To  re-enforce  the  missionary  body,  in  order  to  push  the  Gospel  into  ever- 
widening  fields,  and  to  supply  the  demands  of  the  mission  schools. 

To  co-operate  in  producing  Christian  literature  for  a nation  of  readers. 

To  win  the  nation  through  the  children  by  strengthening  the  Sunday 
schools. 

To  create  an  educated  Christian  leadership  of  ministers  and  laymen. 

II.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

To  open  12  new  evangelistic  stations  for  Women’s  Council  workers. 

To  send  30  men  and  29  women  missionaries. 

To  build  40  new  churches,  with  Sunday  school  and  reading  rooms. 

To  build  missionary  residences  and  establish  social  centers  in  strategic 
places. 

To  send  one  missionary  for  work  among  government  school  students. 

To  open  central  Gospel  halls  for  factory  and  railway  employes. 

To  bring  our  educational  institutions  to  a higher  standard  of  efficiency  and 
to  make  the  pervasive  spirit  thoroughly  Christian. 


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Japan 

“ In  the  great  nation  of  Japan  Christianity  may  develop  a constructive  leadership  for  the 
Orient  rvhich  will  profoundly  influence  the  entire  Church  of  Christ.” 


EVANGELISTIC  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  reach  with  the  Gospel  message  the  dissatisfied  multitudes  who  are 
turning  from  the  old  religions  to  test  the  truth  of  Christianity. 

To  train  and  conserve  the  thousands  of  inquirers  who  were  enrolled  as  a 
result  of  the  National  Evangelistic  Campaign  and  others  still  going  on. 

To  reach  the  Japanese  in  Korea  and  Manchuria  with  the  Gospel. 

To  conserve  the  results  of  mission  schools,  Sunday  schools,  and  kinder- 
gartens established  in  our  territory. 

To  organize  adequately  for  special  evangelistic  and  social  work  in  two  or 
more  manufacturing  and  railway  centers. 

To  make  better  provision  for  the  reaching  of  government  school  students. 

To  bring  our  chapels  to  the  self-supporting  and  self-propagating  period 
as  quickly  and  safely  as  possible  and  thereby  co-operate  in  the  building 
up  of  the  Japan  Methodist  Church. 


II.  What  We  Have 

Eight  mission  stations  and  circuits. 

Lambuth  Memorial  Bible  Woman’s  Training  School,  Kobe. 
One  evangelistic  center  in  Oita  for  women. 

Twenty-eight  Bible  women. 

Twenty-five  Japanese  evangelistic  workers. 

Eighty-two  preaching  places. 


III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Establish  1 2 new  stations. 

Send  52  missionaries. 

Erect  3 large  evangelistic  and  social  center  halls  in  Osaka,  Koke,  and 
Kyoto. 


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Japan 

"Japan  is  to  achieve  in  the  Orient  the  educational  assimilation  of  our  Christian  civilization.” 

EDUCATIONAL  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  provide  adequately  for  the  housing,  teaching,  and  Christian  training 
of  the  large  numbers  of  non-Christian  students  who  desire  to  enter 
our  schools  every  year. 

To  provide  a well-trained  Christian  ministry,  also  an  educated  Christian 
leadership  of  laymen,  both  being  necessities  of  the  nation. 

To  contribute  to  the  general  education  of  New  Japan  by  co-operating 
with  the  authorities  of  the  national  school  system. 

II.  What  We  Have 

The  Kwansei  Gakuin,  at  Kobe,  the  largest  Methodist  institution  in  for- 
eign fields  of  the  same  grade,  with  an  enrollment  of  1,272  students, 
a teaching  staff  of  56,  a high  school,  a theological  school,  and  several 
courses  of  college  grade.  (The  Canadian  Methodist  Mission  has 
joint  ownership.  The  Japan  Methodist  Church  co-operates  in  admin- 
istration.) 

Hiroshima  Girls’  School,  the  largest  mission  school  for  girls  in  Japan, 
wfith  an  enrollment  of  850  students.  It  has  a primary  school,  a middle 
school,  a higher  school,  and  a splendid  kindergarten  teachers’  training 
school. 

Palmore  Gakuin,  an  English  night  school  at  Kobe,  the  largest  and  best 
equipped  of  its  kind  in  Japan. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Send  5 missionaries  for  educational  work. 

Provide  a native  kindergarten  teacher  for  each  new  station. 

Better  equip  the  kindergarten  work  in  every  station. 

Take  one  unit  in  the  Woman’s  Christian  College,  in  Tokyo. 

Co-operate  with  other  Methodist  missions  in  establishing  a middle  school 
for  Japanese  in  Korea. 

Promote  the  expansion  scheme  of  the  Kwansei  Gakuin,  perfect  the  col- 
lege departments,  and  secure  a university  charter. 

Develop  further  the  Hiroshima  Girls’  School  for  the  better  realization 
of  its  great  mission  to  the  young  womanhood  of  the  country. 

Enlarge  the  plant  of  the  Palmore  Gakuin  to  meet  the  demands  of  the 
increasing  number  of  students. 


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Japan 

MEDICAL  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

Medical  work  in  Japan  is  done  mainly  by  the  government  and  private 
Japanese  practitioners. 


II.  What  We  Have 

Our  mission  does  not  undertake  medical  missions  in  Japan. 


III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Instead  of  medical  work,  the  highly  important  work  of  the  Christian  Lit- 
erature Society  is  to  be  more  liberally  supported,  the  distribution  of 
Christian  books  and  tracts  to  be  systematically  provided  for  in  each 
mission  station  and  school. 

To  contribute  one  unit  to  the  maintenance  of  a Union  Methodist  Publish- 
ing House  in  Tokyo. 


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Japan 


EFFICIENCY  PROGRAM  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

(In  addition  to  present  income) 

1919-1923 

GENERAL  WORK 


From 

Home  Base 


From 

Evangelistic  Educational  Medical  Total  Japan 

Property  and 

land $400,605  $273,500  $ 674,105  $76,400  $ 597,705 

Budget 197,876  65,500  263,376  13,527  249,849 

Endowments  400,000  400,000  400,000 


$598,481  $739,000  $1,337,481  $89,927  $1,247,554 


Analysis  of  Above 

EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

MEDICAL 

50  native  workers. 

Additional  building  at  Pal- 

Emphasis  to  be  put  on 

20  missionaries. 

20  missionary  residences. 
50  churches  and  chapels. 
3 gospel  central  halls. 
Equipment  for  evangelistic 
work  among  students. 

more  Institute. 

Endowment  for  Kwansei 
Gakuin. 

Endowment  for  Hiroshima 
Girls’  School. 

New  building  at  Hiroshi- 
ma Girls’  School. 

5 new  buildings  at  Kwan- 
sei Gakuin. 

8 smaller  buildings  at 
Kwansei  Gakuin. 

Christian  literature. 

WOMAN’S  WORK 


From 

Japan 


From 

Home  Base 


Evangelistic  Educational  Medical!  Total 

Property  and  land $150,836  $27,730  $178,566  $178,566 

Budget  66,949  21,897  88,846  88,846 

Endowments  


$217,785  $49,627  $267,412  $267,412 


Analysis  of  Above 


EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

MEDICAL 

29  women  missionaries. 

Unit  in  Woman’s  College, 

No  plans  for  medical  work. 

Open  1 2 new  stations.  , 

Tokyo. 

Open  large  institutional 

Kindergarten  for  each  new 

centers. 

station. 

Train  more  Bible  women. 

Trained  kindergartners  for 
new  work. 

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Korea 

The  one-time  “Hermit  Kingdom ” norv  in  touch  Tvilh  Tvorld  movements. 

GENERAL  SURVEY 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  give  the  gospel  to  1,252,841  people  for  whom  Southern  Methodism 
is  wholly  responsible. 

To  build  churches  and  provide  an  efficient  leadership  for  them. 

To  establish  Bible  Institutes  and  Institutional  Plants  for  men  and  women 
in  our  largest  centers. 

To  organize  Sunday  schools  after  a modern  pattern  and  prepare  and 
distribute  a Christian  literature. 

To  put  our  schools  on  an  efficiency  basis,  emphasizing  industrial  work 
for  men  and  women. 

To  equip  and  thoroughly  man  our  medical  plants. 

II.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Send  28  men  and  3 1 women  missionaries  within  the  next  five  years. 

Build  and  equip  50  new  Churches. 

Provide  a special  Sunday  School  Secretary. 

Establish  common  schools  and  kindergartens  for  boys  and  girls. 

Train  84  Bible  Women  and  48  teachers  for  common  schools. 


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Korea 

“We  have  the  tremendous  advantage  of  having  no  popular  and  strongly  entrenched 
religion  to  uproot  before  our  faith  can  be  planted .” 


EVANGELISTIC  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

The  ratio  of  Christians  being  only  one  to  each  1 1 9 of  the  population, 
our  task  is  a tremendous  one. 

A definite  propaganda  to  revive  Buddhism  and  to  implant  Shintoism  in 
Korea  calls  for  renewed  evangelistic  effort. 

The  greater  part  of  our  cities,  with  faces  to  the  past — untouched,  unsatis- 
fied, and  often  unapproachable — to  be  sought  for  Christ.  The 
smaller  part — hungry,  seeking,  untrained  to  avoid  the  pitfalls — these 
to  be  satisfied  with  Christ. 


II.  What  We  Are  Now  Doing 

Eight  men  and  eleven  women  are  working  as  evangelistic  missionaries. 

Rural  Churches  are  receiving  scant  attention. 

The  time  and  energy  of  our  present  force  of  workers  are  consumed  on 
the  organized  work.  They  have  no  time  left  for  an  aggressive  drive 
among  the  non-Christian  multitudes. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Send  1 6 men  and  20  women  missionary  evangelists. 

Establish  in  our  mission  stations  institutional  centers  for  men  and  women. 

Establish  Bible  Institutes  for  men  and  women. 

Provide  for  a better  trained  native  leadership  through  Theological  Sem- 
inary and  Woman’s  Bible  School. 


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Korea 

“ The  value  of  our  schools  to  the  missionary  enterprise  is  unquestioned.  They  save 
to  the  Church  the  children  of  Christian  homes  and  are  indispensable  in  the  work  of  train- 
ing Christian  leaders  for  the  future." 

EDUCATIONAL  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  provide  Christian  institutions  of  learning  for  the  children  of  our 
Church. 

To  furnish  the  intellectual  leadership  which  rightly  belongs  to  Chris- 
tianity. 

To  give  to  Korea’s  benighted  womanhood  the  right  to  know,  to  think, 
and  to  reason. 


II.  What  We  Have 

One  high  school  for  boys  in  Songdo. 

One-half  interest  in  a high  school  for  boys  in  Wonsan. 

Several  thousand  pupils  in  our  common  schools  for  boys  and  girls. 

Two  high  schools  for  girls — Holston  Institute,  in  Seoul,  and  Carolina 
Institute,  in  Songdo. 

One  industrial  school  for  women,  at  Wonsan. 


III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Send  7 men  and  7 women  missionaries  for  educational  work. 

Furnish  our  share  in  the  Chosen  Christian  College  enterprise. 

Equip  and  man  the  academic  departments  of  Anglo-Korean  School. 
Establish  24  common  schools  for  boys  and  girls  and  1 4 kindergartens. 
Provide  a “special”  school  for  young  women  at  Songdo. 

Put  on  an  efficiency  basis  Holston  Institute,  Songdo,  and  Carolina  Insti- 
tute, Seoul. 

Lay  emphasis  on  industrial  education  for  women. 


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Korea 


''The  medical  n >or£  is  a valuable  agency  for  reaching  the  unevangelized.  It  makes 
to  them  a most  direct  and  powerful  appeal." 

MEDICAL  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  make  the  medical  work  we  already  have  thoroughly  efficient. 

To  relieve  suffering  caused  by  insanitary  living  and  to  deal  a death  blow 
to  sorcery  and  witchcraft. 

II.  What  We  Have 

Hospitals  in  Choon  Chun,  Songdo,  and  Wonsan. 

Nurses’  training  School,  Songdo. 

Co-operation  in  Union  Medical  College  and  Nurses’  Training  School, 
Seoul. 

A promising  itinerant  medical  work. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Send  three  physicians  and  four  nurses. 

Provide  our  share  of  outlay  for  Severance  Medical  College. 

Enlarge  and  thoroughly  equip  existing  institutions. 


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Korea 

EFFICIENCY  PROGRAM  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

(In  addition  to  present  income) 

1919-1923 

GENERAL  WORK 


From  From 

Evangelistic  Educational  Medical  Total  Korea  Home  Base 

Property  and  Iand....$262,025  $123,650  $ 71,450  $457,125  $44,126  $412,999 
Budget  201,505  216,015  61,600  479,120  479,120 


$463,530  $339,665  $133,050  $936,245  $44,126  $892,119 


Analysis  of  Above 


EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

MEDICAL 

50  churches. 

Share  in  Chosen  Christian 

Share  in  Union  Medical 

5 institutional  plants. 

College. 

College. 

1 theological  seminary. 

Songdo  School  equipment. 

Equipment  of  hospitals. 

1 6 missionary  residences. 

Hostels  and  other  work  for 

Choon  Chun,  Songdo, 

1 6 missionaries. 

government  school  stu- 

Wonsan. 

Maintenance  of  native 

dents. 

3 doctors. 

workers. 

5 missionaries. 

2 doctors’  residences. 

Sunday  school  rooms. 

3 missionary  residences. 

WOMAN’S  WORK 

From  From 

Evangelistic  Educational  Medical  Total  Korea  Home  Base 

Property  and  land $ 67,900  $ 63,850  $ 3,800  $135,550  $ 625  $134,925 

Budget  125,245  167,735  14,550  307,530  860  306,670 

Endowments  


$193,145  $231,585  $18,350  $443,080  $1,485  $441,595 


Analysis  of  Above 


EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

MEDICAL 

Institutional  plants  in  cen- 

Industrial  school  for  worn- 

Nurses'  training  schools  in 

ters. 

en,  Wonsan. 

Seoul  and  Songdo. 

Woman’s  Bible  School. 

1 2 primary  schools. 

4 nurses. 

84  Bible  women. 

9 itinerating  teachers. 

20  missionaries. 

48  primary  school  teachers. 

Addition  to  missionaries’ 

7 missionaries. 

residences  and  one  new 

1 “special  school”  for 

residence. 

women,  Songdo. 

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Mexico 

GENERAL  SURVEY 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

The  evangelization  of  1,750,000  people — 60  per  cent,  illiterate,  all 
superstitious,  aroused,  inquiring,  and  spiritually  hungry. 

The  education  of  leaders  and  of  the  people  themselves,  so  far  as  laws  will 
permit.  To  aid  the  Government  in  this  work,  which  is  straining  every 
nerve. 

To  combat  poverty  and  the  want  of  hygiene  by  providing  missionary 
doctors  and  nurses. 

The  establishment  of  social  settlement  work. 

The  preparation  of  native  leaders,  the  most  urgent  need  of  all. 

II.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Add  to  our  present  force  of  missionaries  8 men  and  5 women;  also  40 
native  teachers — 29  men  and  1 1 women — 2 physicians,  and  2 or  more 
nurses. 

Reopen  the  hospital  we  already  have  and  add  another. 

Inaugurate  industrial  education  and  increase  facilities  for  normal  training. 

Open  two  or  three  centers  for  the  training  of  evangelistic  workers,  both 
men  and  women. 

Begin  social  settlement  work. 

Patronize  and  sustain  the  Union  Theological  Seminary  and  a joint  pub- 
lishing house  and  evangelical  paper. 


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Mexico 

EDUCATIONAL  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

An  unprecedented  demand  for  education. 

The  woman’s  work  is  much  hampered  by  provisions  of  the  new  Consti- 
tution. 

II.  What  We  Are  Now  Doing 

Normal  school  for  girls  in  operation  at  Saltillo. 

High  schools  at  Monterey  and  El  Paso. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Take  over  the  work  of  the  Congregationalists  at  Chihuahua,  if  the  plan 
of  redistribution  carries,  and  of  the  Disciples  at  Piedras  Negras  and 
Monterey. 

Double  the  capacity  of  the  Normal  School  for  Girls. 

Inaugurate  special  training  for  Bible  Women. 

Increase  the  effectiveness  of  the  schools  at  El  Paso  and  Monterey  and 
establish  schools  at  once  at  Chihuahua,  Torreon,  Durango,  and 
Nogales. 

Open  at  least  three  new  schools  for  girls. 

Inaugurate  manual  training  and  industrial  schools. 

Support  the  Union  Seminary  and  supplement  its  work  by  special  courses 
at  El  Paso  and  perhaps  at  Monterey. 


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Mexico 


MEDICAL  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

The  people  are  in  great  need,  especially  in  rural  districts,  of  medical  prac- 
titioners, dispensaries,  and  nurses. 

The  work  may  be  interfered  with  by  new  laws. 

II.  What  We  Have 

One  valuable  hospital  property  and  a good  reputation  at  Monterey. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Reopen  Monterey  Hospital  and,  if  possible,  establish  one  at  Torreon  or 
Chihuahua. 

Open  a dispensary  at  Durango. 

Send  2 doctors  and  2 nurses. 


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Mexico 


EFFICIENCY  PROGRAM  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

(In  addition  to  present  income) 

1919-1923 

GENERAL  WORK 


From  From 

Evangelistic  Educational  Medics  Mexico  Home  Base 

Property  and  lancl....$  78,500  $126,300  $ 5,000  $209,800  $ 44,600  $165,200 

Budget  198,000  356,900  27,500  582,400  127,705  454,695 

Endowments  


$276,500  $483,200  $32,500  $792,200  $172,305  $619,895 


Analysis  of  Above 


EVANGELISTIC 

8 missionaries. 

20  chapels. 

1 2 parsonages. 

Native  evangelists  and  pas- 
tors. 


EDUCATIONAL 

Further  development  of 
Lydia  Patterson,  Lau- 
rens, and  Effie  Edington 
Schools. 

5 additional  teachers 
(American). 

10  additional  teachers 
(Mexican). 


MEDICAL 

Repair  hospital  at  Monte- 
rey. 

Open  another. 

2 doctors  and  sufficient 
nurses. 


WOMAN’S  WORK 


From  From 

Evangelistic  Educational  Medical  Toted  Mexico  Home  Base 

Property  and  land $ 2,000  $228,400  $230,400  $230,400 

Budget  42,500  66,600  109,100  $15,550  93,550 


$44,500  $295,000  $339,500  $15,550  $323,950 


Analysis  of  Above 


EVANGELISTIC 

EDUCATIONAL 

MEDICAL 

Equipment  of  social  settle- 

Normal  school  building  at 

Dispensary  and  nurse  in- 

ment  at  Durango. 

Saltillo  and  salaries  of  2 

eluded  in  evangelistic 

Salaries  of  3 evangelistic 

new  missionaries  and  3 

budget. 

missionaries. 

native  teachers. 

Salaries  of  5 native  evan- 

3 new  centers  of  work. 

gelistic  workers. 

6 new  missionaries. 

1 2 new  native  teachers. 

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Work. 


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Woman’s  Work — Home  Department 

GENERAL  SURVEY 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  evangelize  the  foreign-born  people  now  on  Southern  soil. 

The  education  and  evangelization  of  the  negro,  fitting  him  for  leadership. 
To  magnify  our  opportunity  among  the  people  living  on  the  Gulf  Coast. 
To  secure  the  services  of  educated  men  and  women  for  home  mission 
work. 

The  preparation  of  nurses  for  district  work. 

The  social  redemption  of  the  cities. 

The  evangelization  of  the  negroes. 

The  education  of  the  mountain  people. 

I I . What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Strengthen  the  work  in  the  mountains  by  properly  equipping  schools  im- 
planted therein. 

Provide  for  dependent  girls  and  multiply  centers  to  care  for  the  inde- 
pendent working  girls. 

Raise  the  standard  of  our  negro  work  and  multiply  Bethlehem  Houses. 
Erect  additional  buildings  for  our  Mexican  schools. 

Increase  the  capacity  of  our  work  at  New  Orleans  by  additional  build- 
ings and  enlarged  playgrounds. 

Erect  dormitories  for  girls  in  connection  with  State  universities. 

Enlarge  the  capacity  for  service  to  the  French  by  schools  and  settlements. 


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MOUNTAINS  AND  MINES 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  give  religious  and  industrial  training  to  the  mountain  people  of  Laurel 
County  and  its  adjacent  counties,  in  the  State  of  Kentucky,  a territory 
of  1 50,000  people. 

To  develop  the  mountain  people  in  Transylvania  County  and  its  adjacent 
counties  in  the  State  of  North  Carolina,  by  industrial,  cultural,  and 
religious  education. 

To  help  Americanize  and  evangelize  the  foreign  and  indifferent  people 
of  our  mines  in  West  Virginia,  Oklahoma,  Texas,  and  the  Lead  Belt 
of  Missouri. 


II.  What  We  Have 

Sue  Bennett  Memorial  School,  for  mountain  boys  and  girls,  London,  Ky. 
The  campus  covers  23  acres.  There  are  1 1 buildings,  and  the  prop- 
erty is  valued  at  $80,000.  There  are  1 7 teachers  and  408  students 
The  course  of  study  covers  academic,  normal,  preparatory,  vocational, 
commercial,  and  musial  training. 

Brevard  Institute,  North  Carolina.  It  contains  26  acres,  1 1 buildings, 
and  is  valued  at  $75,000.  There  are  14  teachers  and  271  students. 

Two  Wesley  Houses  have  been  established  in  mining  districts. 

Eight  deaconesses  have  been  engaged  in  four  different  mining  sections. 
Eight  hundred  and  twelve  families  have  been  reached  through  their 
efforts  in  1917. 


III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

We  propose  to  erect  a high-school  building,  a chapel,  and  add  to  the 
boys’  dormitory  at  Sue  Bennett  Memorial. 

Erect  a boys’  dormitory  at  Brevard  Institute. 

Double  the  number  of  deaconesses  in  the  mining  sections  where  we  are 
already  at  work. 


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THE  NEGRO 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  help  train  the  negro  women  for  home-making,  for  child-training,  and 
for  right  home  ideals. 

To  protect  the  young  negro  girls  and  train  and  educate  them  for 
woman’s  task  in  the  world. 

To  bring  to  bear  upon  civic  authorities  the  necessity  for  clean  and  healthy 
living  conditions. 

To  help  educate  the  children  for  a safe  citizenship. 

To  bring  about  racial  co-operation  and  help  in  every  way  to  alleviate 
the  friction  and  prejudice  between  the  races. 

II.  What  We  Have 

The  industrial  training  of  the  girls  at  the  Annex  in  Paine  College, 
Augusta,  Ga.  Paine  Annex  consists  of  3 acres  and  3 buildings,  val- 
ued at  $30,000.  The  accommodations  and  facilities  are  wholly 
inadequate. 

Bethlehem  House,  Augusta,  Ga.,  a small  building  and  a double  lot, 
which  furnishes  inadeqate  quarters  for  the  religious,  social,  and  civic 
betterment  of  the  people. 

The  Bethlehem  House,  Nashville,  Tenn.,  co-operating  with  the  Socio- 
logical Department  of  Fisk  University,  serves  as  a training  center  for 
negro  workers. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Erect  two  more  dormitories  at  Paine  Annex,  increasing  the  capacity  to 
accommodate  300  girls. 

Erect  a building  for  teaching  industries  at  Paine  College. 

Build  an  administration  hall,  to  include  a library,  rooms  for  societies,  and 
a large  dining  hall,  at  Paine  College. 

Remodel  and  equip  the  Augusta  Bethlehem  House. 

Increase  the  capacity  of  the  Bethlehem  House  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  by 
erecting  an  administration  building  providing  a chapel,  class  and  club 
rooms,  equipment  for  industrial  training,  and  a gymnasium. 

Multiply  the  number  of  Bethlehem  Houses  wherever  the  need  appears. 


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Woman’s  Work — Home  Department 

CITY  WORK 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

The  supreme  task  of  the  Church  of  God  in  America  is  the  evangelization 
and  social  redemption  of  the  great  cities.  There  are  sixty  cities  within 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  where  the  population  exceeds 
eight  thousand. 

To  Americanize  the  foreign-born  people  in  these  cities  and  to  teach  the 
unskilled  English-speaking  people  and  the  religiously  indifferent. 

To  lift  the  700,000  cotton  mill  people  of  the  South  out  of  ignorance  and 
superstition. 

To  protect  the  young  working  women  and  to  throw  about  them  a Chris- 
tian environment. 

II.  What  We  Have 

There  are  36  City  Mission  Boards  within  the  bounds  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  South,  organized  for  the  social  evangelization  of 
more  than  40  different  communities. 

Jointly  with  the  Woman’s  Missionary  Society,  they  maintain  7 Co-opera- 
tive Homes  for  young  working  women  and  40  Wesley  Houses  or 
other  social  institutions  in  foreign,  negro,  cotton  mill,  and  other  English- 
speaking  industrial  sections.  Last  year  92  deaconesses  personally 
reached  23,200  homes. 

The  Wesley  Houses  served  208  industrial  classes,  19  night  schools,  and 
265  clubs,  that  bring  education,  manual  training,  and  the  teaching  of 
English  to  foreign  groups. 

Seven  Co-operative  Homes  for  young  working  women  are  maintained. 
In  one  city  alone  from  these  homes  750  young  women  were  turned 
away  for  lack  of  room. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

To  extend  our  present  method  of  social  evangelism. 

To  hold  the  educated  youth  of  the  Church  for  the  Church’s  service. 

To  increase  the  number  of  deaconesses  and  missionaries  to  meet  the 
demands  of  the  vast  home  mission  field. 

To  provide  Methodist  dormitories  at  State  schools  and  universities. 

To  build  a hospital  for  the  special  training  of  Christian  nurses  for  district 
service. 

To  provide  scholarships  for  giving  language  preparations  to  those  who 
serve  in  the  foreign  communities. 

To  increase  the  erection  of  Co-operative  Homes. 


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LATIN  AMERICANS 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  reach  the  more  than  a million  Mexican  people  in  the  United  States. 

To  assist  in  eliminating  the  wretched  poverty,  illiteracy,  lack  of  industrial 
skill,  prejudice,  and  atheism  which  make  these  people  a menace  to 
our  great  Southwest. 

To  bring  the  blessing  of  the  Gospel  to  the  Cubans  in  Florida. 

To  educate,  to  lift  out  of  dirt  and  squalor  the  Cubans  in  Florida,  and  to 
evangelize  the  foreign-born  citizens  who  come  to  American  soil. 

II.  What  We  Have 

At  Laredo,  Tex.,  Holding  Institute,  a large  boarding  school  for  boys  and 
girls;  1 5 teachers  and  376  students  are  registered. 

The  Homer  loberman  Clinic  and  Wesley  House,  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
which  ministers  to  a population  of  7,000  people. 

Wolff  Settlement,  at  Ybor  City,  Tampa,  Fla.,  serves  a community  of 
12,000  Cubans. 

In  West  Tampa  three  missionaries  serve  a Cuban  community  of  9,000. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Erect  a girls’  dormitory  at  Holding  Institute,  remodel  the  boys’  dormitory, 
and  supply  the  need  for  a large  administration  building. 

Within  the  next  year  erect  a Wesley  House  at  Tampa,  Fla.,  with  play- 
ground equipment,  day  nursery  attachment,  clinic,  kindergarten,  social 
club  and  class  rooms. 

Buildings  of  proper  proportion  must  be  erected  at  Los  Angeles  and  a 
Wesley  House  at  Key  West. 


NOTE. — “Latin  Americans”  in  this  survey  means  the  citizens  of  the  United  States 
of  Mexican  and  Cuban  extraction,  the  alien  Mexican  (both  resident  and  refugee),  and  the 
immigrant  from  Cuba. 


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“/  consider  Oriental  missions  in  the  United  Stales  most  important,  for  Orientals  in 
the  United  Stales  have  a larger  hearing  when  they  return  home.  Our  people  say  they 
know  what  Christianity  is  because  they  } ave  lived  in  a Christian  land.” 


ORIENTALS 

I.  The  Task  Before  Us 

To  evangelize  10,000  Japanese  and  1,200  Koreans  allotted  to  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  by  the  Pacific  Coast  Evangelistic 
Association. 

To  maintain  social  evangelistic  centers. 

To  give  Christian  environment  to  the  Oriental  immigrant. 

To  Christianize  our  portion  of  the  5,000  foreign  children. 


II.  What  We  Have 

We  maintain  a force  of  5 Japanese  and  Korean  preachers  and  6 other 
trained  workers  in  this  Oriental  work.  There  are  150  Japanese,  250 
Koreans,  and  258  children  in  the  Sunday  schools. 

At  Alameda,  Cal.,  we  own  Mary  Helm  Hall.  The  property  is  valued 
at  $11,900. 

Tire  Sacramento  River  Circuit  serves  the  most  numerous  Japanese  popula- 
tion of  any  appointment.  At  Walnut  Grove  the  Japanese  themselves 
have  erected  a Japanese  mission  home  and  social  center  on  a leased  lot. 
A Japanese  pastor  serves  this  circuit. 

At  San  Francisco  a commodious  hall  is  rented  for  the  Korean  congrega- 
tion. This  is  known  by  the  Koreans  as  the  Korean  center  of  North 
America. 

There  are  250  Oriental  Church  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  South,  in  California. 


III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

Purchase  a building  at  Oakland  adequate  for  Church,  school,  and  social 
work,  and  furnish  rooms  which  may  be  rented  to  transient  Japanese. 
Establish  a Church,  educational,  and  social  center  at  Dinuba. 


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Our  Italian  pastor  sa])s:  “ Roman  Catholicism  is  stronger  in  Ne n>  Orleans  than  it  is  in 

Rome.” 

GULF  COAST 

To  Americanize  and  evangelize  the  foreign  fisher  folk  on  the  Gulf  Coast 
of  Mississippi. 

To  help  the  women  and  children  of  the  Italian  and  French  people  of 
New  Orleans  to  higher  standards;  to  Christianize  and  relate  these 
people  to  the  great  Protestant  faith. 

To  educate  and  interpret  Christianity  to  the  French  people  of  Louisiana. 

To  greet  and  serve  the  immigrants  as  they  arrive  at  Port  Galveston  and 
to  help  them  to  become  Christian  citizens. 

II.  What  We  Have 

At  Biloxi,  a Wesley  House,  where  two  trained  workers  serve  the  fisher 
folk  through  the  day  nursery,  kindergarten,  clubs,  classes,  and  evange- 
listic visitation. 

St.  Mark’s  Hall,  the  gospel  settlement  on  Esplanade  Street,  New 
Orleans,  stands  as  the  incarnation  of  the  social  spirit  of  Christ.  Four 
trained  workers  are  in  charge. 

At  Houma  there  are  two  trained  workers  conducting  clubs  and  classes 
among  the  scattered  French  people  as  the  beginning  of  a larger  work. 

A port  missionary  as  the  representative  of  the  Church  of  God  stands  at 
Port  Galveston  to  help  the  immigrants  in  their  hour  of  need  as  they 
reach  our  shores. 

III.  What  We  Propose  to  Do 

To  erect  a church  and  gymnasium  at  Biloxi,  Miss.,  for  the  enlargement 
of  the  work  among  the  fisher  folk. 

To  extend  this  social  and  evangelistic  work  at  other  points  on  the  Gulf 
Coast. 

To  purchase  property  and  erect  a suitable  building  for  the  enlarged  work 
at  St.  Mark’s  Hall,  New  Orleans. 

To  provide  a gospel  center  for  rescue  work  and  service  for  the  “down- 
and-out”  in  the  congested  sections  of  New  Orleans. 

To  begin  educational  work  for  the  girls  of  the  French  people  of  Lou- 
isiana. 

To  make  permanent  the  immigration  work  at  Galveston. 


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EFFICIENCY  PROGRAM  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

(In  addition  to  present  income) 

1919-1923 


Mountain  Work  $ 158,600 

City  Work  442,000 

Latin  Americans  1 5 1 ,000 

Gulf  Coast  Work  82,500 

Orientals,  Pacific  Coast  33,000 

Negroes  243,000 

Dependent  Girls  1 00,000 


Total  askings  $1,210,100 


Total  askings  $1,210,100 


ANALYSIS  OF  ABOVE 

MOUNTAIN  WORK 

CITY  WORK 

LATIN  AMERICA 

Brevard  Institute:  Boys’ 

dormitory,  girls’  dormi- 
tory, increased  teaching 
force. 

Sue  Bennett  School:  Chap- 
el, gymnasium,  library, 
high-school  building. 

Wesley  Houses  at  mines. 

Methodist  dormitories  at 
State  colleges  and  uni- 
versities. 

Wesley  Houses  and  Co-op- 
erative Homes. 

Holding  Institute:  Admin- 
istration building,  boys’ 
and  girls’  dormitories. 

Arizona,  new  school  build- 
ing. 

Homer  Toberman  Clinic 
and  Settlement,  building 
and  clinic. 

Wesley  House  at  Ybor 
City,  Tampa,  Fla. 

GULF  COAST 

ORIENTALS 

NEGROES 

Biloxi  Wesley  House, 
chapel  and  gymnasium. 
New  Orleans,  St.  Mark’s 
Hall,  modern  building 
and  increased  force. 
Extension  of  French  work. 

Property  for  Japanese 
work  at  Oakland,  Dinu- 
ba. 

Property  for  Korean  work 
at  San  Francisco. 

Paine  Annex: 

1 industrial  building. 

2 girls’  dormitories. 

1 administration  build- 
ing. 

Bethlehem  House,  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  administra- 
tive building. 

Multiply  Bethlehem 
Houses  in  Southern 

cities. 

DEPENDENT  GIRLS 

Vashti  Industrial  School: 
Remodel  administrative 
building. 

Three  Co-operative  Homes. 


70 


DEPARTMENT 

of 

HOME 

MISSIONS 


71 


Home  Missions  Worth  While 

The  Protestant  Churches  of  the  United  States  last  year  put  about  $14,000,000  into 
Home  Missions  and  about  $16,000,000  into  Foreign  Missions. 

President  William  R.  Harper:  “America  is  the  world’s  greatest  mission  field 

because  of  what  it  is  and  what  it  is  to  be.” 

Of  the  1 1 0,000,000  people  in  the  United  States,  26,000,000  are  Protestant  com- 
municants, 15,000,000  are  baptized  Roman  Catholics,  2,200,000  are  Jews,  and  about 
1,500,000  are  of  other  faiths.  Of  the  remaining  more  than  65,000,000,  about  20,- 
000,000  are  children.  Forty-five  million  persons  live  in  the  United  States  without  any 
Church  affiliation  whatever. 

Rev.  Richard  Stowe,  D.D. : “The  future  of  the  whole  world  is  pivoted  on  the 

question  of  whether  the  Protestant  Churches  in  the  United  States  can  hold,  enlighten, 
and  purify  the  people  born  or  gathered  into  its  compass.” 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South,  last  year  raised  and  expended  for  Home 
Missions  and  Church  Extension,  exclusive  of  loan  funds,  $1,1 1 1 ,350  under  the  following 
agencies:  Department  of  Home  Missions,  $147,952;  Conference  Missions,  $406,- 

695 ; Woman’s  Department  of  Home  Missions,  $224,832;  Board  of  Education  for 
Negro  Work,  $12,000;  Duke  Fund  for  Missions,  in  North  Carolina,  $10,000;  Board 
of  Church  Extension,  $309,95 1 . 

Rev.  Josiah  Strong,  D.D. : “He  does  most  to  Christianize  the  world  and  to  hasten 
the  coming  of  the  kingdom  who  does  most  to  make  thoroughly  Christian  the  United 
States.” 

Objectives  in  Home  Missions 

To  demonstrate  and  make  effective  in  our  own  land  the  mission  of  Missions. 

To  make  the  United  States  of  America  a spiritual  world  power  by  making  it  thor- 
oughly Christian. 

To  take  the  Gospel  to  the  morally  destitute  and  religiously  illiterate  in  the  cities, 
about  the  rim  of  the  towns,  in  the  factory  villages,  in  the  hill  recesses,  and  in 
the  neglected  tenant  houses. 

To  do  something  for  our  10,000,000  Negroes  in  keeping  with  our  opportunity  and 
our  responsibility  and  their  educational  and  religious  needs. 

To  provide  an  intelligent,  capable,  adequately  trained  religious  leadership  to  the 
200,000  Indians  within  our  Southern  territory  and  to  carry  forward  educa- 
tional, community,  and  religious  activities  in  their  behalf. 

To  awaken  our  Southern  people  to  the  importance  of  the  assimilation  and  evangel- 
ization of  the  immigrants  in  our  territory  through  Church  schools,  public 
schools,  English  night  schools  for  adults,  and  through  the  native  American 

72 


Methodist  pastors  by  such  means  and  methods  as  may  be  adopted  after  a due 
survey  and  study  have  been  made. 

To  create  sentiment  and  develop  methods  for  the  effectualization  of  country  life, 
with  its  social,  educational,  recreational,  and  religious  institutions,  whether  that 
life  be  lived  on  the  plains  or  among  the  hills. 

To  give  small  Churches  and  poor  communities  a sufficient  and  efficient  ministry;  to 
provide  for  insuring  a proper  support  to  every  acceptable  itinerant  preacher 
through  an  adequate  supplemental  pastoral  fund  in  every  Annual  Confer- 
ence. 

To  bring  about  the  construction  and  adoption  of  a financial  plan  which  Boards  of 
Lay  Activities,  presiding  elders,  and  stewards  can  put  into  operation  in  bringing 
pastoral  charges  to  a living,  respectable  self-support. 

To  enlist  and  enroll  20,000  Methodist  laymen  as  lay  helpers  to  the  pastors  of 
our  16,381  Churches  that  get  religious  service  from  their  pastors  only  once 
a month.  There  are  50,000  unordained  laymen  preaching  the  Gospel  in 
Great  Britain. 

To  create  and  execute  in  our  cities  an  intelligently  wrought-out  policy  with  a com- 
prehensive and  well-articulated  program  upon  which  all  the  forces  and  re- 
sources may  be  united  for  a constructive  and  continuous  Christian  propaganda. 

To  establish,  maintain,  and  employ  sane,  efficient,  aggressive,  and  officially  directed 
evangelism  in  promoting  revival  work  through  the  Church. 

To  produce,  publish,  and  distribute,  wherever  needed,  a leaflet  and  tract  literature 
dealing  with  the  important  phases  of  denominational  doctrines  and  polity  of 
Christian  belief  and  living  and  with  such  theological  and  philosophical  error 
as  may  be  required  for  the  establishment  and  protection  of  Christian  truth 
and  holy  living. 


n 


The  Rural  Church 

Population 

1 . Of  the  34,000,000  people  in  the  South,  more  than  65  per  cent,  live  on  farms 

or  in  small  villages. 

2.  48  per  cent,  of  those  on  farms  in  the  South  are  tenants,  as  follows:  Missis- 

sippi, 66.1  percent.;  Georgia,  65.6  per  cent.;  South  Carolina,  63  per  cent.; 
Alabama,  60.2  per  cent.;  Louisiana,  55.2  per  cent.;  Oklahoma,  54.7  per 
cent.;  Texas,  52.2  per  cent.;  Arkansas,  50  per  cent.;  North  Car- 
olina, 42.3  per  cent.;  Tennessee,  41.1  per  cent.;  Missouri,  29.6 
per  cent.;  Maryland,  29.5  per  cent.;  Florida,  26.6  per  cent.;  Virginia, 
26.5  per  cent.;  Kentucky,  33.9  per  cent.;  Kentucky,  33.9  per  cent.;  West 
Virginia,  20.4  per  cent. 

Enemies  of  the  Rural  Church 

Tenancy,  absentee  landlordism,  bad  roads,  poor  schools,  poor  farming,  absentee 
pastors,  absentee  teachers. 

Promoters  of  the  Rural  Church 

Land  owning  by  farmers,  good  roads  movement,  consolidating  schools  and  erec- 
tion of  adequate  school  buildings,  leadership  of  ministers  in  community  life, 
residence  of  teachers  with  the  people  whom  they  serve. 

Our  Methodism  Rural 

Table  I.  shows  that  out  of  6,150  pastoral  charges,  exclusive  of  the  foreign  field, 
with  19,31 1 Church  organizations,  only  2,003  are  stations,  806  are  two-point 
charges,  738  are  three-point  circuits,  and  2,603  have  four  appointments  or 
more.  In  other  words,  15,276  of  our  19,31 1 Churches  are  in  four-appoint- 
ment circuits  and  get  “preaching”  only  once  a month.  Two-thirds  of  the 
2,214  Churches  in  three-point  circuits  get  service  only  once  a month.  We 
have  16,381  Churches  (or  85  per  cent.)  that  get  service  from  their  pastors 
only  once  a month.  * * WBm  * T - V 

One  Objective 

To  enroll  and  put  into  service  20,000  laymen  as  lay  helpers  to  the  pastors  on 
circuits,  in  order  to  assure  public  worship  in  every  Methodist  church  every 
Sunday  when  there  is  need  for  such  service. 

Our  Rural  Pastors 

Table  II.  tells  its  distressing  story.  Last  year,  closing  last  fall,  we  had,  out  of 
6,150  pastors,  819  who  had  received  less  than  $400;  1,268,  or  more  than 
one-fifth,  that  received  less  than  $500;  and  1,585,  or  more  than  one-fourth, 
that  received  less  than  $600.  Only  1,723  in  the  Church  received  over 
$1,000,  although  there  were  2,003  station  preachers.  The  Conference 
Boards  of  Missions  are  giving  assistane  to  2,073  pastors  out  of  6,150.  Ta- 
ble III.  shows  these  and  other  valuable  facts. 

74 


What  to  Do 

1 . Awaken  a sense  of  responsibility,  a conscience  in  the  people,  upon  the  matter 

of  a living  wage  for  their  ministers. 

2.  Bring  about  the  construction  and  adoption  of  a financial  plan  for  the  Church 

that  the  Boards  of  Lay  Activities,  presiding  elders,  and  stewards  can  put  in 
operation  in  bringing  pastoral  charges  to  a living,  respectable  self-support. 

3.  Produce  sentiment  that  will  demand  the  creation  of  such  supplemental  funds  in 

every  Conference  as  will  insure  for  every  married  itinerant  pastor  an  annual 
support  not  less  than  $1,000  and  a residence,  and  for  every  single  itinerant 
Pastor  not  less  than  $600 

Finances  Required 

Funds  sufficient  to  meet  the  situation  should  be  raised  by  each  Conference.  The 
Board  of  Lay  Activities  has  this  as  its  prescribed  duty.  There  should  be 
complete  co-operation  between  the  Board  of  Lay  Activities,  the  Board  of 
Missions,  and  the  President  and  his  cabinet  of  each  Conference. 


Table  I. — Charges  Having  1 to  10  Appointments 


CON7KKKNCS. 

I 

2 

3 

4 

S 

6 

7 

8 

9 

IO 

Total. 

Alabama 

42 

17 

17 

20 

31 

21 

IQ 

I I 

6 

I84 

Baltimore 

CT 

a8 

27 

34 

20 

23 

Q 

4 

2 

210 

Central  Texas 

J J 
86 

21 

30 

46 

19 

18 

220 

Columbia 

7 

4 

2 

13 

Denver 

14 

3 

17 

East  Columbia 

16 

c 

2 

23 

East  Oklahoma 

CQ 

j 

24 

20 

21 

12 

C 

C 

2 

I48 

Florida 

64 

35 

15 

29 

17 

8 

J 

3 

I 

172 

German  Mission 

12 

6 

j 

18 

Holston 

59 

27 

*5 

29 

28 

21 

20 

13 

8 

5 

235 

Illinois 

8 

7 

12 

8 

2 

37 

Kentucky 

46 

19 

29 

27 

3 

4 

128 

Little  Rock 

4O 

13 

15 

X3 

22 

22 

IO 

2 

4 

1 5° 

29 

4 

33 

j . . 5 

.Louisiana 

42 

21 

33 

24 

13 

IO 

2 

145 

Louisville 

4Q 

15 

22 

38 

34 

II 

3 

I 

173 

Memphis 

c6 

18 

14 

37 

33 

l6 

6 

2 

182 

Mississippi  . . . 

35 

16 

20 

36 

21 

22 

8 

158 

Missouri. 

C3 

31 

43 

38 

7 

I 

173 

Montana. 

14 

14 

New  Mexico 

23 

8 

4 

3 

5 

2 

3 

I 

I 

5° 

North  Arkansas 

66 

23 

22 

45 

20 

14 

7 

5 

I 

I 

204 

07 

31 

20 

cc 

44 

26 

5 

287 

North  Carolina 

47 

2K 

20 

j j 

35 

36 

25 

11 

8 

2 

209 

North  Georgia.. . . 

81 

31 

29 

5° 

48 

18 

3 

3 

2 

267 

36 

20 

23 

27 

31 

21 

10 

1 

169 

North  Texas  . 

63 

30 

2& 

35 

22 

6 

1 

185 

Northwest  Texas.. . 

C4 

15 

24 

27 

17 

II 

2 

2 

I 

153 

Pacific. 

C2 

Q 

3 

1 

65 

St.  Louis  r . . . . f . 

73 

19 

15 

21 

7 

7 

1 

1 

144 

2Q 

l6 

19 

47 

16 

6 

133 

South  Georgia  . 

68 

l6 

29 

57 

5° 

19 

3 

I 

243 

32 

28 

20 

8 

I 

I 

147 

Tennessee 

46 

24 

21 

47 

35 

22 

4 

2 

201 

Texas 

72 

28 

27 

29 

29 

r5 

15 

3 

I 

2 

221 

29 

99 

24 

is 

3d 

21 

3 

2 

1 

I 

133 

Virginia. . 

31 

30 

19 

58 

26 

19 

16 

2 

I 

271 

42 

20 

21 

8 

2 

1 

135 

68 

28 

19 

25 

II 

8 

2 

l6l 

Western  North  Carolina.. 

74 

31 

15 

23 

34 

27 

23 

17 

I 

245 

Western  Virginia 

3i 

11 

10 

8 

l6 

l6 

6 

10 

2 

4 

114 

2,003 

806 

738 

1,068 

746 

450 

200 

90 

36 

13 

6,150 

75 


Table  II. — Salaries  Paid  Preachers  in  Charge 


Total 

— N!OxoO'e,cC'J"n<oe5r:t'-Ncri  — 

n CM  CM  r-i  r-i  CM  — r-i  n n r-i  n n CM  CM  CM  CM  n n i n n CM  ri  CM  CM  ri  CM  ri  »i  n n 

t- 

S 

CD* 

« ° 
is 

-s  CO 

: ;co  : : 

n : : . : . j’”'04  :cm  : 

; cm  . cm  : :*i;«h::©*:::::: 

ac 

3,001 

to 

3,500 

m n n ! m I 

j ::::::::  : : : i : : 

00 

3,000 

: CO  : r-i  ; r-i  ; ; ; r-i  n ; 

« : jes  ; : CM  ; CM  . — < ; CM  CM  *1  r*  ; O ; 'M*  T-t  ; 

8 

— < 03 

SsS 

: : cm  ; ; 

:r^  :H  : 

1 : |rt  ;H  j””  : — — « j — N : | j 

cs 

Ssl 

! : 1 1 

if  CM  : CO  : : CM  ; — — COCM 

■ It—CMCMCO*->OCM  •.  CMr-t-OM  ;-*">**■*'  . CO  ^ ti 

8 

2,000 

to 

2,250 

x h tft  : ; 

CO  OS  ; if  ; — CM  i— i CD  CD  tQ  CO 

1 : : CD  -I*  — CM  ■*>  CD  CO  : n CM 

2 

1,701 

to 

1,009 

tO  fc-  US 

CO  if  ; if  : ; cd  n n CM  CM 

it*  •.iCDtOCOOM'iCOiCOM'CM'ifl  t—  CM  CD  >i  CD  CO  ; 

8 

1,500 

to 

1,700 

t-^f  : : 

CM  CO  : t-  ; O CD  CM  CM  CD  ^ CO 

M •.iCiOOt-MjONaOCOiftOl.M-M'Ot-MCOOTj'N 

1-0 

8 

1,400 

to 

1,499 

to  co  : 

: r-i  ; y-i  : — CM  ri  CO  CO 

;CO  : ; n -»J1  CO  CO  CM  ; — CMSOn-^r-tCOCMCOTj*  — 

35 

1,300 

to 

1,390 

co-**if  : CM 

CM  CO  : CM  ; CD  1*  ; CO  CM  CM  n 

ri  : : rl  ;iDCOCM»Onr-.^OCDCMcOt-OM^*nCMCMn 

o 

1 ,200 j 

to 

1 ,299 j 

OCDCJr-.  : — 

oo  :0  ;OcDr-«cDcofr-o 

■o  :rJ<r.CNiODt--CDOX#OC.Cl--L'iOOMiai- 

n . n n CM  ri  n i n ri  n CM  ^ CO 

$ 

CO 

1,100 

to 

1,199 

co  co  oo  : 

— < CM  ;nnn  n ;ifCMCDfc» 

CO  ; r^  CO  CM  CO  fc—  CD  tO  CD  ri  •.  CJ  t-  -<r  CM  Ci  O-  WC  CO  0>  CD  tO 

193: 

1,001 

to 

1,090 

if  t-if  : : 

co  cm  ; co  :cmcmOM>i^ 

trt  l-iCM^CDgt-OCMn^t-^CDCOCOaDCOCM^COCO 

as 

CM 

OOO'I 

• 

CMrl  ; 

®«if  :*coiOnon 

r-i  CM  ; 1 1 

t-  :CM*^  — '-DCDtOCOOt-^CCCOCOr-OO  — CDOOO  — 
ri  : nirti  n n ^ «i-,nCM  nrl 

381 

901 

to 

909 

~<©co  : : 

K iD  : O :r-i-*t  ; tO  CM  if!  CD 

OiiC.XX^OCONir.DOCMOOb-CM'e'OCO 

222 

900 

t-«oosn  : 

CM  CO  :OS  : CD  CO  CD  ac  to  to 

00  : n to  CO  t-  to  CM  CD  CM  i OO  n r-.  CD  CO  GC  -+  -♦*  CM  — « CM  m 

|8 

801 

to 

899 

cmioo  : 

NriH  ; ; 

coco  : CO  : CD  cm 

CD  : to  CD  tD  r- » CO  CO  CD  11  t- to  00  if  CO  O t- t- O Ci  CO  CD  I — 

^ J r-,  11  CM  ri  rl^t  ri  ri  ^ 

800 

cot-X  ;hi- 

cot-  cm  ; n r-i ro oc  ci M- 

CM  ;ncD^*a0t-CC^-1*r-iCMCMC5  — t-tD^«CMt-OtDCO 

|8 

701 

to 

799 

s-coo  : 

rO^Ol^CM-.OCMO-^t-O^^^^OO^O^tC^CDOO-COOaCOO^CDt- 

lit 

700 

CMPIMTinr- 

n t-  : OS  n CO  O ri  CO  tO  CO  CM 

t-  i— < os o oc cd  1" cm  iiOir.icoatCnoywcM^  ^ g 

r-  _ £» 
© » 

O © 

— 1>  to  : — d 
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cit-cM  : — r- 

“■-♦'aO*-'OMCOCDCOCMaOt^b-gt-©M<-'C^i^OX/COCOOl#OCMCO-^'t-t-ir-«J*CMOaCO  — t-co 

3 

500 

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1-1  ; ri  CM  D lO  rr  CM  CM  ;CMCMnCOnCM^KriCCCMnn 

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401 

to 

499 

— i*ncM»ico  — xncscDcoxnxotcocoxcM-^eotditD^oas— cMxcooa»r-.coxt-occxoi 

nr<H  ri  r-i  ri  ri  CM  1 r-i  r-i  CM  1 CM  r-i  r-i  r-i  r-i  r-i 

ii 

400 

r-i  CM  ; j r-i  r- 

^ICOHCOH  ;1H  ;n  ;r- 

: ri  . i*  ^ CM  CO  : n : r- csj  C0 1 . — CM  CM  : ; n : 

I5 

399 

or 

less 

CM  CD CO  tO  C 
CM  r-i  r 

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Table  III. — Statistics  of  Annual  Conferences  on  Missions,  1916-17 


o» 

m 

o 

»• 

■ 

m 

§ 

L 3 

£ g o 
cc*s 

a *3 

$ 11,000 

22.500 
20,000 

600 

610 

600 

8,000 

13.500 
600 

16,438 

1,100 

6,700 

7,820 

2,800 

9,816 

10.500 
13.520 

9,350 

13,244 

600 

2.500 
11,400 

9,384 

17,276 

85,328 

9,056 

11,560 

12,000 

2.900 

6,528 

14.500 
20,672 

8.950 

9,100 

14.534 

14,150 

28,000 

8,000 

16.500 
21,350 

6,500 

t-*' 

Hj* 

At 

si 

Jl 

a 

a • 

•r  1 
1 1 

o .5 

*•  a 

$ 6,760 
6,088 

6.672 
192 
240 
272 

2.800 

8,500 

160 

6,472 

600 

2,606 

8,680 

692 

8.184 
4,176 
6,480 
4,320 
4,192 

160 

832 

6,924 

4.416 

6,224 

8.672 
4,528 
6,440 
3,360 

1 1,104 

3.264 
4,048 
7,328 
8,488 

6.264 
4,966 
3,680 

9.184 
2,544 
8,744 
6,832 
2,000 

SB 

00 

©' 

A.D 

1 

1 

«y* 

$ 18,000 

15.900 
20,850 

1 600 
750 
850 
8,750 
11,000 
500 

17.100 
1,700 
8,150 

11.500 

1.850 

9.850 

13.050 

16.900 

13.500 

13.100 
600 

2,600 

21.700 
13,800 

19.450 
27,240 
14.150 
17.000 

10.500 
3,540 

10,200 

12,600 

22.900 

10.900 

16.450 
15,520 

11.500 

28.700 
7,950 

11.700 

21.3.50 
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Baltimore 

Central  Texas 

Columbia 

Denver 

East  Columbia 

East  Oklahoma 

Florida  

German  Mission ... 

Holston 

Illinois 

Kentucky.. 

Little  Book...., 

Los  Angeles 

Louisiana 

Louisville 

Memphis 

Mississippi.  

Missouri 

Montana 

New  Mexico 

w North  Alabama 

North  Arkansas  ... 

-'V.i-  North  Carolina 

North  Georgia 

North  Mississippi.. 

North  Texas 

Nor  th  w est  Texas. . . 

Pacific 

St.  Louis 

South  Carolina 

South  Georgia 

S,  W.  Missouri 

Tennessee 

Texas 

Upper  S.  Carolina. 

Virginia 

West  Oklahoma.... 

West  Texas 

Western  N.  C 

Western  Virginia.. 

Total 

77 


Mountain  Population 

Location 

Eastern  Kentucky,  Eastern  Tennessee,  Western  North  Carolina,  Southwestern 
Virginia,  Northern  Georgia,  and  Northwestern  Arkansas. 


Number 

Total  population  of  the  sections,  about  3,000,000.  Number  without  adequate 
educational  and  religious  facilities,  about  300,000. 

Prerequisite 

A careful  survey  under  the  direction  of  the  Home  Missions  Council  by  sympathetic 
investigators. 


Schools 

There  are  about  200  Church  and  independent  schools,  of  which  3 per  cent  are  col- 
leges of  limited  grade,  36  per  cent,  day  schools,  and  61  per  cent,  boarding 
schools.  More  than  half  are  owned  and  supported  by  Churches,  93  being 
maintained  by  three  distinctive  Southern  Churches.  The  accompanying  table 
shows  the  1 0 of  our  Church,  exclusive  of  those  owned  and  controlled  by  the 
Woman’s  Department. 


Our  Mountain  Schools 


Niin. 

Location. 

Acres  in  Campus. 

| Buildings. 

Total  Value  of 
Plant. 

Total  Value  of 
Equipment. 

Total  Debt. 

Fac- 

ulty. 

Enroll- 

ment. 

Income  for  1916-17. 

Men. 

Women. 

Boys. 

Girls. 

Tuition  and 
Other  Fees. 

Conference. 

Other 

Sources. 

Total 

Income. 

Ferrum  Train.  School.. 

Ferrum,  Va  . 

376 

5 

$65,000 

$ 540 

$11,000 

2 

6 

62 

82 

$ 500 

$10,919 

$4,453 

$15,872 

37 

3 

1,740 

235 

3,000 

2 

3 

38 

32 

587 

1,700 

2,287 

Morrisville,  Tenn 

33 

9 

35,000 

12,500 

None 

3 

6 

102 

77 

1,966 

3,200 

5,166 

Lindsay  Wilson  Train- 

11 

5 

44,500 

600 

3,000 

2 

4 

120 

136 

300 

3,000 

125 

8 

33,900 

3,210 

10,000 

4 

8 

131 

110 

3,884 

1,930 

150 

5^964 

Rutherford  College 

Rutherford  College, 

N.  C. 

50 

3 

35,000 

1,500 

9,900 

5 

1 

125 

20 

1,800 

1,300 

885 

3,985 

Sandy  Valley  Seminary 

Paintsville,  Ky 

5 

2 

70,000 

500 

10,000 

2 

6 

104 

146 

5,000 

200 

750 

5,950 

6 

4 

14,200 

750 

3 

2 

50 

42 

1,530 

290 

1,180 

3,000 

Young  Harris  College.. 

Young  Harris,  Ga 

1,100 

0 

45,000 

8,050 

8 

5 

260 

173 

2,000 

2,014 

1,050 

5,064 

Weaver  College 

Weaverville,  N.  C 

21 

4 

40,400 

2,713 

13,400 

9 

3 

62 

38 

2,146 

2,115 

2,622 

6,883 

Churches 

The  Churches  are  called  upon  to  provide  a competent  and  sufficient  ministry  with 
equipment  for  community  service  of  various  kinds.  Co-operation  and  not 
competition  should  characterize  the  endeavors. 


Minimum  Proffer 

1.  $50,0000  a year  for  five  years  for  religious  and  social  service  workers  in  the 

six  States. 

2.  $10,000  a year  for  five  years  for  each  of  the  10  schools. 

X. 

Total  Minimum  Askings 

For  Mountain  Work,  $750,000. 

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Our  Responsibility 


Foreigners 


There  are  400,000  Mexicans  in  Texas  and  400,000  more  in  New  Mexico,  Ari- 
zona, and  California. 

There  are  60,000  Italians  in  Texas,  50,000  in  Louisiana,  40,000  in  Mississippi  and 
Alabama,  and  30,000  in  Florida. 

There  are  30,000  Cubans  in  Florida. 

There  are  60,000  Bohemians  in  Texas  and  Oklahoma. 

There  are  50,000  Poles  in  Texas  and  Oklahoma. 

There  are  250,000  Germans  in  Texas  and  large  numbers  in  Missouri  and  Louis- 
ville. 

There  are  large  colonies  of  Greeks,  Syrians,  and  others  in  Florida  and  coast  terri- 
tories. 

There  are  70,000  Japanese  and  60,000  Chinese  within  our  territory. 


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English  night  schools  for  adults  in  50  places. 

Foreign-speaking  ministers. 

American  missionaries  who  speak  their  language. 

American  pastors  preaching  everywhere  in  English  to  the  foreigners  in  their  com- 
munities. 


Urgent  Needs 

1 . $50,000  a year  for  five  years  to  maintain  English  night  schools  for  adult  foreign- 
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2.  $50,000  a year  for  five  years  to  maintain  missions  and  missionaries  for  foreigners. 


3.  $100,000  immediately  to  erect  churches  for  foreigners. 

a.  Tampa,  $15,000.  e.  San  Antonio,  $5,000. 

b.  Key  West,  $5,000.  f.  Bohemian,  $10,000. 


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c.  New  Orleans,  $20,000. 

d.  Houston,  $5,000. 


f. 

g.  Mexican,  $30,000. 

h.  Italian,  $10,000. 


4.  $300,000  to  equip  schools  for  Mexicans,  including  Mexican  Institute,  San  An- 
tonio, $100,000;  Patterson  Institute,  El  Paso,  $100,000,  and  a Western  Insti- 
tute, Arizona,  and  California,  $100,000. 


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For  foreigners,  $900,000. 


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Negroes 

There  are  10,000,000  negroes  in  the  United  States,  of  whom  9,000,000  are  in  the 
South.  Tables  I.  and  II.  show  the  Church  membership.  Tables  III.,  IV.,  and  V. 
show  their  schools.  Table  VI.  shows  what  schools  the  white  Church  Boards  are 
maintaining  for  them. 


Tarle  I. — Independent  Negro  Denominations 


Denominations. 

Number 
of  Church 
Organiza- 
tions. 

Number  of 
Members. 

Number 
of  Sunday 
Schools. 

Members  in 
Sunday 
School. 

Value  of 
Property. 

' Total 

33,220 

3,789,898 

30,999 

1,452,155 

$45,191,422 

Baptists,  National  Convention _ 

Colored  Primitive  Baptists  in  America..  . ...  

United  American  Freewill  Baptists.. 

Church  of  God  and  Saints  of  Christ...  

Church  of  Liv.  God  (Christian  Workers  Friendship). 

Church  of  Living  God  (Apostolic  Church) ... 

Church  of  Christ  in  God 

Voluntary  Missionary  Society  in  America  (col.)..  .. 

Free  Christian  Zion  Church  of  Christ  (colored) 

Union  Methodist  Church ..  . . 

Union  A.  M.  E.  Church  (colored) 

Independent  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 

18,534 

797 

251 

48 

44 

15 

9 

3 

15 

36 

77 

2,261,607 

35,076 

14,489 

1,823 

2,676 

752 

848 

425 

1,835 

4,000 

4,347 

1,500 

620,000 

5,592 

568,608 

240,798 

3,059 

4,397 

18,066 

17,910 

166 

100 

1 

43 

13 

6 

3 

7 

35 

78 

924,665 

6,224 

3,307 

150 

886 

585 

289 

390 

340 

1,000 

3,372 

24,437,272 

296,539 

79,278 

6,000 

23,175 

25,700 

9,700 

2,400 

5,975 

30,000 

170,150 

African  M.  E.  Church..  

African  Union  Methodist  Protestant  Church.  . . . 

African  M.  E.  Zion  Church.. 

Colored  M.  E.  Church  ....  ....  ..... 

Reformed  Zion  Union  Apostolic  Church  (col.) 

Ref.  Methodist  Union  Episcopal  Church  (col.)  ..  .. 
Colored  Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church 

6,647 

69 

3,180 

3,196 

45 

58 

196 

6,285 

66 

3,100 

2,900 

36 

54 

196 

292,689 

5,266 

107,692 

95,000 

1,508 

1,792 

7,000 

11,303,489 

183,697 

4,833,207 

3,500,000 

37,875 

36,965 

210,000 

Table  II. — Negro  Membership  in  White  Denominations 


Denominations. 

Number 

of 

Churches. 

Members  of 
Church. 

Number 
of  Sunday 
Schools. 

Members  in 
Sunday 
School. 

Value  of 
Property. 

Total . 

6,210 

515,161 

5,330 

293,202 

$12,103,655 

Seventh-Day  Adventists 

29 

562 

26 

529 

100,000 

Baptists,  Northern  Convention _ 

10S 

32,639 

10,876 

35,706 

7,545 

329 

106 

12,827 

5,732 

1,561,326 

Free  Baptists. . . .. 

197 

177 

186,130 

Primitive  Baptists..  . _ . . 

797 

2,300 

Christian  (Christian  Connection) 

92 

88 

4,001 

270 

69,505 

Church  of  God  in  N.  America,  Gen.  Eldership 

15 

11 

5,500 

Congregationalists.. 

156 

11,960 

9,705 

1,528 

490 

174 

10,339 

4,319 

459,497 

170,265 

Disciples  of  Christ ..  . 

129 

117 

Churches  of  Christ.  

41 

24 

597 

14,956 

Independent  Churches  . ..  

12 

13 

435 

2,750 

General  Synod  of  Evan.  Luth.  Church  in  U.  S.  A 

Evangelical  Luth.  Synodical  Conference  of  N.  A 

Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

1 

48 

3,750 

64 

15 

1,164 

308,551 

2,612 

1,258 

1 

38 

3,745 

53 

25 

1,653 

204,810 

5,000 

41,400 

6,104,379 

Methodist  Protestant  Church  

1,650 

62,651 

Wesleyan  Methodist  Connection  in  America 

22 

16 

769 

21,000 

Moravian  Church  (Unitas  Fratrum) 

2 

351 

2 

217 

8,000 

Presbyterian  Church  in  U.  S.  A 

417 

27,799 

50 

433 

24,904 

752,387 

Cumberland  Presbyterian  Church  ..  . 

1 

1 

75 

1,000 

Associate  Reformed  Synod  in  South 

1 

18 

1 

35 

200 

Presbyterian  Church  in  U.  S 

44 

1,183 

42 

1,160 

32,850 

Protestant  Episcopal  Church 

198 

19,098 

188 

13,779 

1,773,279 

Reformed  Church  in  America 

2 

59 

1 

52 

Reformed  Episcopal  Church 

35 

3,086 

28 

1,357 

45,000 

Roman  Catholic  Church*  ..  

36 

38,235 

277 

33 

3,151 

678,480 

Church  of  United  Brethren  in  Christ 

10 

8 

236 

3,100 

Evangelical  Lutheran  Joint  Svnod 

3 

65 

4 

280 

2,700 

•Of  Ohio  and  other  stated. 


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Table  III. — Colored  Schools  Classified  on  the  Basis  of  Ownership  and  Control 


Ownership  and  Control. 

Number  op 
SCHOOIS. 

Counted  Attendance. 

Teachers  and 
Workers. 

Income  for 
Current 
Expenses. 

Value  op. 

Property 

| Total. 

1 Large  or 
Important. 

Small  or  Less 
Important. 

Total. 

Elementary. 

Secondary. 

College  and 
Professional. 

Total. 

White. 

Negro. 

All  private  and  higher 

schools 

747 

3S8 

359 

107,206 

SO, 376 

24,189 

2,641 

5,851 

1,358 

4,493 

84,241,572 

$35,870,125 

Public  control 

122 

122 

... 

23,527 

9,812 

12,662 

1,053 

1,317 

38 

1,279 

1,215,112 

7,373,179 

Federal  schools.  

1 

1 

1,401 

400 

1,001 

106 

33 

73 

172,257 

1,756,920 

Land  grant  schools 

16 

16 

4,875 

2,595 

2,268 

12 

400 

400 

544^520 

2, 576; 142 

State  schools 

11 

11 

2,638 

1,466 

1,132 

40 

188 

2 

186 

246,834 

1,394,547 

City  high  schools 

67 

67 

8,707 

8,707 

4S4 

3 

481 

200,000 

1,500,000 

County  training  schools 

27 

27 

... 

5,906 

5,751 

155 

139 

139 

51 ',501 

145,570 

Private  control 

625 

266 

359 

83,679 

70,564 

11,527 

1,588 

4,534 

1,320 

3,214 

3,026,460 

28,496,946 

Independent  schools 

118 

46 

72 

14,851 

12,273 

1,841 

737 

1,141 

249 

895 

1,099,224 

12,369,441 

Denominational  schools 

507 

220 

287 

68,828 

58,291 

9,686 

851 

3,390 

1,071 

2,319 

1,927,236 

16,127,505 

Under  white  boards 

354 

160 

39 

51,529 

43,605 

7,188 

736 

2,562 

1,069 

1,493 

1,546,303 

13,822,451 

Under  negro  boards 

153 

60  194 

17,299 

14,686 

2,498 

115 

828 

2 

826 

380,933 

2,305,054 

Table  IV. — Colored  Schools  Maintained  by  States.  Teacher-Training 

and  Industrial  Courses 


States. 

Location. 

Counted  Attendance. 

Teachers. 

Income. 

Value  of 
Property. 

Total. 

Elementary. 

Secondary. 

| College. 

Total. 

State 
Appropri- 
ation or 
Grant. 

Other 

Sources. 

Total 

2,638 

1,466 

1,132 

40 

188  $246,834 

$218,917 

$27,917 

$1,394,547 

Alabama ..  .. 

Montgomery 

714 

575 

139 

31 

21,500 

16,000 

5,500 

70,000 

Kansas _ 

Topeka . 

82 

45 

37 

14 

15,830 

12,000 

3,830 

131,395 

Do  

Quindaro . 

106 

27 

79 

26 

38,148 

28,766 

9,382 

$ 195,300 

Maryland 

Bowie. 

50 

12 

38 

8 

8,053 

7,167 

'886 

' 33,500 

New  Jersey 

Bordentown 

93 

72 

21 

18 

27,755 

27,755 

99,159 

North  Carolina 

Elizabeth  City 

249 

181 

68 

8 

6,074 

5,360 

714 

45,000 

Do 

Fayetteville  . _ . 

227 

174 

53 

7 

5,544 

4,969 

575 

38,700 

Do 

Winston-Salem 

165 

78 

87 

10 

5,258 

4,900 

358 

51,700 

Ohio 

Wilberforce.. 

231 

191 

40 

29 

77,000 

77,000 

436,893 

Virginia 

Petersburg 

573 

282 

291 

25 

27.898 

22,000 

5,898 

i-  233,900 

West  Virginia 

Bluefield  

148 

20 

128 

-- 

12  13,774 

13,000 

774 

59,000 

Table  V. — Schools  Maintained  by  Land  Grants.  Agricultural  and 

Mechanical  Schools 


Total 

4,875 

2,595 

2,268 

-- 

400 

$544,520 

$259,851 

284,669 

$2,576,142 

Alabama 

Normal 

264 

179 

85 

27 

29,209 

22,695 

6,514 

182,500 

Arkansas 

Pine  Bluff  

170 

130 

40 

12 

24,003 

13,636 

10,367 

141,456 

Delaware 

Dover 

71 

71 

8 

13,159 

10,000 

3,159 

42,150 

Florida 

Tallahassee 

345 

185 

148 

34 

34,168 

25,193 

8,975 

131,421 

Georgia 

Savannah 

390 

280 

110 

21 

25,369 

16,667 

8,702 

68,449 

Kentucky 

Frankfort  . 

234 

108 

126 

19 

22,327 

8,505 

13,822 

156,700 

Louisiana 

Baton  Rouge 

160 

102 

58 

23 

31,384 

21,102 

10,282 

95,250 

Maryland 

Princess  Anne 

123 

38 

85 

12 

15,528 

10,000 

5,528 

44,950 

Mississippi 

Alcorn . 

484 

337 

147 

24 

47,774 

36,774 

11,000 

258,500 

Missouri...  

Jefferson  City 

264 

122 

142 

33 

42,162 

3,125 

39,037 

226,375 

North  Carolina 

Greensboro.. 

150 

60 

90 

26 

32,518 

16,500 

16,018 

129,700 

Oklahoma.  

Langston ..  

408 

219 

189 

28 

46,400 

10,400 

36,000 

153,827 

South  Carolina 

Orangeburg- 

726 

529 

197 

33 

44,216 

30,754 

13,462 

297,300 

Tennessee. . 

Nashville 

300 

119 

181 

25 

39,819 

12,000 

27,819 

193,915 

Texas 

Prairie  View 

552 

115 

437 

46 

49,985 

12,500 

37,485 

237,200 

West  Virginia 

Institute  . . . 

234 

72 

162 

_ _ 

29 

46,499 

10,000 

36,499 

216,449 

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Table  VI. — White  Church  Boards  Maintaining  Schools  for  Negroes 


Denominational  Boards. 


Number  op 
Schools. 


Counted  Attendance. 


Teachers. 


Total. 

1 Large  or 
Important. 

Small  or  Less 
Important. 

Total. 

Elementary. 

Secondary. 

College. 

Total. 

White. 

Negro. 

Income  for 
Current 
Expenses. 

Value  of 
Propertt. 

354 

162 

192 

51,529 

43,605 

7,188 

736 

2,562 

1,069 

1,493 

81,546,303 

113,822,451 

24 

24 

... 

5,536 

3,186 

2,100 

250 

419 

139 

280 

304,861 

3,870,744 

1 

1 

125 

125 

14 

11 

3 

7,746 

16,500 

5 

3 

2 

440 

409 

31 



37 

15 

22 

29,910 

184,602 

29 

29 

6,922 

5,448 

1,380 

94 

383 

212 

171 

235,764 

1,733,589 

8 

6 

2 

1,642 

1,444 

198 

... 

96 

12 

84 

63,868 

915,900 

9 

1 

8 

1,147 

1,147 

26 

13 

13 

18,319 

72,000 

18 

18 

5,059 

3,263 

1,600 

196 

266 

65 

201 

230,160 

2,605,687 

12 

12 

808 

755 

53 

71 

41 

30 

42,975 

309,500 

1 

1 

... 

202 

82 

106 

14 

19 

6 

13 

23,050 

125,000 

85 

32 

53 

8,915 

7,833 

930 

152 

423 

84 

339 

200,124 

2,151,321 

1 

1 

51 

30 

21 

5 

5 

7,300 

51,000 

24 

10 

14 

2,988 

2,720 

268 

... 

176 

12 

164 

118,526 

628,743 

15 

11 

4 

2,870 

2,470 

370 

30 

57 

26 

31 

88,512 

455,600 

10 

6 

4 

1,317 

1,250 

67 

166 

44 

122 

28,367 

211,265 

112 

7 

105 

13,507 

13,443 

64 

— 

404 

384 

20 

146,821 

491,000 

Total 

Baptist: 

American  Home  Missions 

Society 

Women’s  Am.  Home  Mis 

sions  Society 

Christian  Woman’s  Board 

Missions 

Congregation  Am.  Missionary 

Society 

Friends’  Society  and  other 

Friends’  Ag’y 

Lutheran  Board  for  Colored 

Missions 

Methodist  Episcopal: 
Freedman’s  Aid  Society. 
Woman’s  Home  Missionary 

Society 

Meth.  Episcopal  Church,  South 
Presbyterian  (N.)  Board  Mis 

for  Freedmen 

Presbyterian  (South) 

Protestant  Episcopal 

United  Pres.  Ch.  Bds.  of  Freed 

men’s  Mis 

Seven  small  boards 

Roman  Catholic  Bd.  of  Mis 


Facts  From  the  Tables 

1.  There  are  28  State  and  Federal  institutions  of  secondary  and  high  grade.  Of 

these,  16  are  agricultural  and  mechanical  schools.  Their  total  income  is 
$963,61 1,  and  the  value  of  their  property  is  $5,727,609. 

2.  There  are  1 1 8 schools,  46  large  and  72  small,  controlled  by  independent 

boards  of  trustees,  having  an  income  of  $1,099,224  and  a value  of  $12,369,- 
441. 

3.  There  are  in  all  625  private  schools,  valued  at  $28,496,946,  with  a total  at- 

tendance of  83,679,  of  whom  70,564  are  elementary,  1 1,527  secondary,  and 
1,588  of  college  grade. 

4.  Negro  denominations  own  and  maintain  153  schools,  60  large  and  93  small, 

valued  at  $2,303,054,  and  having  an  annual  income  of  $380,933. 

5.  White  denominations  own  and  maintain  354  schools  for  negroes,  of  which  1 60 

are  classed  as  large  and  194  as  small,  valued  at  $13,822,451,  and  having  an 
annual  income  of  $1,546,303. 


Our  Obligation 

It  is  a moral  obligation  based  generally  upon  the  domestic  and  industrial  relations 
of  the  two  races  in  the  South,  and  specifically  upon  the  historic  Church  relation 
of  our  Church  and  the  Colored  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

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Needs 


1.  $250,000  for  endowment,  enlargement,  and  equipment  of  Paine  College, 

Augusta,  Ga.,  as  follows:  Endowment,  $150,000;  boys’  dormitory, 

$50,000;  auditorium,  $20,000;  library,  $10,000;  gymnasium,  $10,000;  in- 
dustrial building,  $10,000. 

2.  $50,000  for  enlargement  and  equipment  of  Lane  College,  Jackson,  Tenn.,  prop- 

erty of  Colored  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

3.  $50,000  for  enlargement  and  equipment  of  Miles  Memorial  College,  Birming- 

ham, Ala.,  property  of  the  Colored  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

4.  $50,000  for  enlargement  and  equipment  of  Texas  College,  Tyler,  Tex.,  piop- 

erty  of  the  Colored  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

5.  $50,000  for  enlargement  and  equipment  of  Arkansas  College,  Pine  Bluff, 

Ark.,  property  of  the  Colored  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

6.  $50,0000  for  enlargement  and  equipment  of  Mississippi  Industrial  College, 

Holly  Springs,  Miss.,  property  of  the  Colored  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

Total  Askings 

For  negroes,  $500,000. 


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Indians 

Indian  Population  in  Southern  States 

Total,  199,205,  out  of  336,000  in  the  United  States.  Oklahoma  has  119,108; 
Arizona,  44,617;  New  Mexico,  20,853;  North  Carolina,  8,118;  Missis- 
sippi, 1,253;  Alabama,  909;  Louisiana,  780;  Texas,  702;  and  none  other 
above  600. 

Schools 

Table  II  shows  92  schools,  valued  at  $5,780,214,  maintained  by  the  government 
in  Arizona,  New  Mexico,  North  Carolina,  and  Oklahoma,  at  an  annual  cost 
for  teachers  of  $61 1 ,545.  Tables  III.  and  IV.  give  the  population  of  the 
Five  Civilized  Tribes  and  the  nine  high-grade  schools  maintained  by  the  gov- 
ernment for  them.  In  the  territory  of  these  Five  Tribes  there  were  last  year 
2,285  public  school  districts,  with  1 8, 1 85  pupils  enrolled.  The  government’s 
appropriation  to  assist  them  was  $275,000. 


Churches 

Table  I.  shows  statistics  of  the  Churches  for  the  Indians  in  all  the  States.  It  is 
estimated  that  the  pagan  Indians  number  about  50,000,  while  another  1 00,- 
000  are  unclaimed  as  adherents  to  Christianity. 


Table  I. — Statistics  of  the  Indian  Missions  of  the  Protestant  Churches 


of  the  United  States,  1914 


Boards  and  Societies. 


i , 

Baptist  Northern... 

Baptist  Southern. 

Christian  Reformed 

Congregational 

Friends 

Independent  Evan.  Mission... 

Lutheran,  Joint  Synod 

Mennonite. 

Methodist  Episcopal 

Methodist  Episcopal,  South... 

Moravian 

National  Indian  Association.. 

Norwegian  Lutheran 

Norwegian  Evan.  Luth.  Soc._ 

Presbyterian,  Northern.. 

Presbyterian,  Southern. 

Protestant  Episcopal 

Reformed  Church  in  America. 
Reformed  Church  in  U.  S. 

tr  (German) 

Reformed  Presbyterian 

Swedish  Evang.  Miss.  Cov.  of 

America 

United  Presbyterian 

Y.  M.  C.  A 

Y.  W.  C.  A 

Total. 


Tribes. 

| Churches. 

Stations.* 

Or- 

dained 

Minis- 

ters. 

Com- 

mis- 

sioned 

Help- 

ers.! 

Communi- 

cants. 

Estimated  Adher- 
ents. t 

Sunday  Schools. 

rn 

Enroll- 

ment. 

Mission  Schools. 

1 Teachers  and 
Helpers. 

Enroll- 

ment. 

White. 

Native. 

White. 

Native. 

Native. 

Mixed. 

Native. 

Mixed. 

Native. 

Mixed. 

20 

118 

5 

13 

99 

12 

3 

5,408 

13,582 

29 

1,220 

5 

17 

220 

1 

4 

2 

2 

3 

4 

9 

2 

90 

600 

4 

300 

2 

4 

62 

6 

21 

24 

7 

6 

1 

27 

1,538 

3,000 

20 

1,187 

1 

18 

267 

10 

10 

14 

8 

8 

550 

1,200 

10 

769 

4 

2 

6 

3 

8 

3 

50 

'200 

4 

81 

1 

1 

9 

1 

2 

2 

4 

6 

4 

120 

900 

4 

500 

4 

4 

92 

4 

6 

11 

12 

2 

4 

250 

560 

7 

388 

25 

45 

47 

25 

10 

7 

15 

2,500 

6,000 

45 

1,750 

6 

20 

9 

95 

15 

5 

32 

2,875 

7,187 

38 

766 

3 

36 

8 

2 

10 

'875 

L688 

6 

514 

7 

11 

18 

7 

'250 

4 

100 

1 

1 

1 

1 

2 

100 

200 

57 

134 

115 

53 

42 

26 

73 

8,95^ 

18,319 

143 

7,915 

13 

57 

1,174 

2 

20 

5 

7 

500 

1,200 

12 

600 

1 

15 

13 

1 

126 

44 

25 

34 

67 

6,982 

10,000 

84 

1,500 

18 

22 

138 

0 

4 

7 

6 

11 

4 

805 

1 ,31S 

6 

400 

1 

1 

1 

1 

9 

40 

1 

30 

3 

1 

3 

1 

... 

2 

... 

74 

... 

400 

3 

175 

... 

1 

5 

45 

... 

1 

] 

1 

44 

150 

1 

2 

2 

3 

2 

1 

1 

152 

200 

4 

200 

115 

2 

2 

14 

2 

175 

456 

556 

211 

222 

152 

229 

31,880 

... 

66,994 

425 

18,395 



53 

167 

2,007 



*, Stations  are  places  where  services  are  held  or  missions  established,  but  no  Churches  organized. 

tllelpers  are  all  unordained  mission  employees  except  those  reported  under  heading  of  "Schools." 

tAnherents  include  all  communicants,  children  of  Church  and  Sunday  school,  and  regular  attendants  at  services. 


84 


Table  II. — Indian  Schools  by  Agencies  for  Year  Ending  June  30,  191  7. 


Name  of  Agency. 

Indian 

Population. 

Number  of 
School  Age. 

Number  of 
Schools  in 
Agency. 

| Boarding. 

>» 

C3 

Q 

Total  Enrollment. 

Average  Attend- 
ance. 

Number. 

Indian. 

Te 

C 

.2 

*5 

c 

t— 1 

i 

o 

Z 

ACHET 

s 

w 

Female. 

Salaries. 

Value  of 
School 
Property. 

Arizona 

44,617 

12,581 

47 

12 

35 

4,618 

3,688 

390 

124 

266 

168 

222 

55262,300 

82, 237, 563 

Camp  Verde 

439 

117 

2 

2 

74 

52 

4 

4 

3 

i 

3,140 

4,585 

Colorado  River  

1,207 

371 

1 

i 

103 

89 

13 

6 

7 

5 

8 

8,550 

70,655 

Fort  Apache 

2,609 

792 

4 

l 

3 

405 

372 

30 

10 

20 

17 

13 

19,115 

260,280 

Fort  Mojave 

1 

i 

159 

141 

16 

5 

11 

6 

10 

10,680 

80,275 

Havasupai 

173 

40 

1 

1 

29 

26 

3 

1 

2 

2 

1 

2,220 

3,100 

Kaibab 

95 

24 

1 

1 

19 

13 

3 

3 

1 

2 

2,320 

4,123 

Leupp 

1,536 

587 

1 

i 

113 

91 

12 

5 

7 

4 

8 

8,520 

70,325 

Moqui 

4,200 

1,037 

6 

l 

5 

419 

356 

39 

15 

24 

15 

24 

21,290 

139,750 

Navajo 

12,080 

4,411 

5 

l 

4 

709 

616 

68 

30 

38 

28 

40 

43,220 

373,414 

Phoenix 

1 

i 

942 

631 

73 

16 

57 

33 

40 

54  740 

668  373 

Pima 

6,253 

1,613 

10 

l 

9 

570 

430 

43 

12 

31 

19 

24 

27^800 

115,767 

Rice 

1 

i 

253 

201 

23 

10 

13 

11 

12 

15,940 

104  783 

Salt  River 

1,232 

419 

3 

3 

118 

89 

6 

1 

5 

3 

3 

4,435 

20,215 

San  Carlos 

2,659 

867 

2 

2 

152 

135 

10 

4 

6 

3 

7 

7,690 

31,344 

San  Xavier 

5,112 

956 

4 

4 

210 

141 

10 

1 

9 

4 

6 

7,220 

34,769 

Truxton  Canyon.. _ 

457 

147 

1 

i 

107 

101 

14 

3 

11 

4 

10 

9,510 

138,540 

Western  Navajo. . 

6,565 

1,200 

3 

2 

i 

236 

204 

23 

5 

18 

10 

13 

15,880 

117,265 

New  Mexico 

20,853 

7,258 

29 

7 

31 

3,226 

2,185 

231 

75 

156 

98 

133 

150,575 

1,170,861 

Albuquerque 

1 

1 

473 

43 

44 

14 

30 

22 

22 

31,110 

251,985 

Jicarilla 

645 

169 

1 

1 

101 

86 

16 

5 

11 

10 

6 

10,800 

83,128 

Mescalero 

627 

196 

1 

1 

119 

113 

10 

3 

7 

7 

3 

7,140 

93,145 

Pueblo  Bonito 

2,724 

1,240 

2 

2 

190 

174 

24 

6 

18 

7 

17 

15,100 

134,848 

Pueblo  Day 

8,700 

2,554 

19 

19 

1,308 

975 

50 

14 

36 

14 

36 

29,805 

108,625 

San  Juan 

6,354 

2,579 

2 

2 

306 

190 

26 

8 

18 

11 

15 

17,310 

177,330 

Santa  Fe _. 

1 

1 

408 

352 

40 

18 

22 

19 

21 

26,370 

220,400 

Zuni 

1,803 

520 

2 

1 

1 

321 

252 

21 

7 

14 

8 

13 

12'940 

104,400 

North  Carolina ... 

2,282 

752 

5 

1 

4 

358 

243 

29 

10 

19 

16 

13 

17,610 

120,765 

Oklahoma 

14,913 

4,936 

16 

16 

-- 

2,507 

2,000 

286 

78 

208 

130 

156 

181,060 

2,251,025 

Cantonment 

785 

223 

1 

1 

128 

85 

11 

4 

7 

4 

7 

3,300 

39,533 

Cheyenne  and  Arapaho. 

1,252 

346 

1 

1 

__ 

123 

108 

17 

8 

9 

7 

10 

5,400 

275,474 

Chilocco 

1 

1 

676 

529 

55 

17 

38 

31 

24 

40,300 

793,045 

Kiowa...  . . 

4,554 

1,404 

4 

4 

649 

553 

72 

14 

58 

33 

39 

45,100 

399 j 851 

Osage.  

2,180 

913 

1 

1 

129 

95 

28 

7 

21 

7 

21 

19,940 

182,210 

Otoe 

578 

166 

1 

1 

84 

70 

12 

1 

11 

6 

6 

8,020 

63,000 

Pawnee 

714 

203 

1 

1 

73 

66 

16 

5 

11 

6 

10 

11,160 

104,278 

Ponca 

1,045 

361 

1 

1 

126 

108 

16 

5 

11 

7 

9 

10,090 

60,793 

Redmoon..  ..  . . 

1 

1 

36 

24 

5 

1 

4 

3 

2 

1,300 

Sac  and  Fox 

682 

254 

1 

1 

88 

53 

1 



1 

1 

1,650 

33,390 

Seger ...  _ ._ 

758 

206 

1 

1 

97 

77 

18 

3 

15 

7 

li 

11,200 

164,542 

Seneca.  . 

1,668 

591 

1 

1 

154 

132 

16 

5 

11 

8 

8 

11,190 

27,521 

Shawnee ... 

75“ 

269 

1 

1 

-- 

144 

100 

19 

8 

11 

10 

9 

12,280 

107,388 

Table  III. — Five  Civilized  Tribes 


Nation. 

Grand 

Total. 

Restricted  Class. 

Unrestricted  Class. 

Full 

Bloods. 

Mixed  J 
or  More. 

1 to  i 

Total. 

Less  than 
1,  Includ- 
ing Inter- 
Married 
Whites. 

Freedmen. 

Total. 

Chickasaw... ..  .. 

Choctaw. . ..  . . 

Mississippi  Choctaw. ..  .. 

Cherokee  ..  ...  . . ...  ._ 

Creek.  . ._ 

Seminole 

Total...  _ . ... 

10,966 

25,168 

1,660 

41,824 

18,761 

3,127 

1,515 

7,087 

1,357 

8,703 

6,858 

1,254 

258 

709 

90 

1,803 

541 

133 

708 

1,644 

30 

2,975 

1,157 

345 

2,481 

9,440 

1,477 

13,481 

8,556 

1,732 

3,823 

9,699 

183 

23,424 

3,396 

409 

4,662 

6,029 

4,919 

6,809 

986 

8,485 

15,728 

183 

28,343 

10,205 

1,395 

101,506 

26,774 

3,534 

6,859 

37,167 

40,934 

23,405 

64,339 

85 


Table  IV. — Government  Schools  for  Five  Civilized  Tribes 


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Armstrong  Male  Academy 

142 

95 

16 

4 

12 

7 

9 

$10,420 

$ 52,836 

Cherokee  Orphan  School - .. 

170 

126 

15 

4 

11 

5 

10 

9,700 

49,556 

Euchee  Boarding  School 

124 

no 

14 

14 

5 

9 

9,293 

38,525 

Euf aula  Boarding  School _ _ 

124 

106 

14 

14 

2 

12 

8,580 

32,930 

Jones  Male  Academy 

125 

103 

14 

ii 

7 

7 

7 

9,720 

31,500 

Mekusukey  Academy _ 

141 

100 

16 

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16 

6 

10 

9,840 

55,696 

Nuyuka  Boarding  School 

126 

105 

15 

3 

12 

6 

9 

9,375 

29,211 

Tuskahoma  Female  Academy ... 

123 

103 

15 

15 

4 

11 

9,270 

39,855 

Wheelock  Female  Academy 

129 

101 

16 

2 

14 

3 

13 

9,525 

34,006 

Total  for  Five  Tribes 

1,204 

949 

135 

24 

115 

45 

90 

$85,723 

$361,115 

Church  Schools  for  Indians 

ARIZONA 

Roman  Catholics:  5 day  schools,  142  enrolled;  2 boarding  schools,  458  en- 
rolled. 

Evangelical  Lutheran:  3 day  schools,  81  enrolled. 

Presbyterian:  1 day  school,  47  enrolled;  1 boarding  school,  147  enrolled. 
Christian  Reformed : 1 boarding  school,  70  enrolled. 

NEW  MEXICO 

Roman  Catholic:  2 boarding  schools,  310  enrolled. 

Christian  Reformed:  1 day  school,  37  enrolled. 

OKLAHOMA 

Roman  Catholic:  3 boarding  schools,  155  enrolled. 

Reformed  Presbyterian:  1 boarding  school,  16  enrolled. 


Our  Immediate  Duty 

1 . Provide  a school  to  train  religious  teachers,  leaders,  and  preachers  for  the  In- 

dians of  all  tribes  at  an  outlay  of  at  least  $150,000. 

2.  Put  our  Indian  Work  on  a basis  commensurate  with  the  claim  upon  our  Church 

and  our  capability  to  meet  that  claim. 


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Cities 

Facts  About  the  Cities 

1.  Our  Church  operates  in  27  cities  having  populations  of  over  50,000  each,  with 

a total  of  practically  5,000,000. 

2.  Southern  States  have  48  cities  of  over  25,000  each,  with  a total  of  3,570,770. 

Of  these,  13  have  more  than  100,000  and  6 about  250,000.  There  are  70 
small  cities  that  have  from  10,000  to  25,000  inhabitants. 

3.  Of  the  13,900,470  immigrants  in  the  United  States  in  1910,  9,640,000  lived 

in  cities. 

4.  Wealth,  social  distinctions,  labor  strifes,  saloons,  commercialized  vice,  political 

rings,  leaders  of  commerce,  makers  of  literature  and  art — possibilities  and 
perils — find  their  first  place  in  the  cities. 

5.  Churches  face  in  the  city  the  problem  of  the  non-churchgoing  masses,  the  indif- 

ference of  capitalists,  the  contempt  of  the  industrial  workers,  the  moral  desti- 
tution of  the  slum,  the  religious  illiteracy  of  the  poor,  the  competition  of  places 
of  amusement,  the  enemies  of  multiplied  forms  and  power.  Half  of  the  city 
population  seldom,  if  ever,  enter  a church. 


Our  Methodism  Lacks 

1 . A city  policy  intelligently  based  upon  a well-wrought-out  purpose. 

2.  Correlation  and  co-ordination  of  its  city  Churches  in  the  city  with  any  view 

to  mobilization,  re-enforcement,  and  avoidance  of  overlapping  any  section. 

3.  A missionary  program  of  anything  like  comprehensives  cope  for  the  evangeliza- 

tion and  Christianization  of  any  city. 

4.  Organization  of  its  forces  and  resources  in  the  city  into  a unifying  body  for  any 

intelligent,  constructive,  continuous  work  of  Christian  propaganda. 


Some  Clamorous  Needs 

1 . New  Orleans,  with  350,000  people,  needs  $50,000  a year  for  five  years. 

2.  St.  Louis,  with  700,000  inhabitants,  needs  $50,000  a year  for  five  years. 

3.  Louisville,  with  250,000,  needs  at  least  $25,000  a year  for  five  years. 

4.  El  Paso,  San  Antonio,  and  Tampa,  border  cities  with  unlimited  opportunities 

for  reaching  immigrants,  need  $50,000  a year  for  five  years. 

5.  Birmingham,  Memphis,  Atlanta,  Nashville,  and  Oklahoma  City  need  $50,000 
a year  for  five  years. 

6.  Every  city  of  50,000  or  more  need  like  comprehensive  scope  for  the  evangeliza- 

tion. 


Asking* 

No  askings  can  be  made  until  a policy  is  adopted.  City  boards  must  first  be 
organized.  But  within  five  years  the  cities  of  the  South  must  have  $1,500,- 
000  for  mission  plants  and  operations. 

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Christian  Literature 


True  and  Alarming 

1.  Protestantism  by  its  liberality  is  being  dissipated  by  poorly  founded  religious 

views. 

2.  Spurious  doctrines  based  upon  inadequate  or  false  interpretations  of  Holy  Scrip- 

tures are  quite  prevalent,  especially  in  poorly  churched  communities. 

3.  Fallacies  in  Christian  teachings  are  taking  root  in  backward  communities  be- 

cause the  Church  is  not  giving  proper  and  adequate  instruction. 

4.  Abnormal  religious  life  is  being  built  upon  false  theories  of  religious  experience. 

5.  Fundamental  Christian  doctrines  are  being  neglected  in  many  places  in  the 

stress  upon  sectarian  claims  and  denominational  differences. 

6.  Christian  doctrines  need  exposition  and  re-enforcement. 

The  Neglect  is  Censurable 

1 . Immigrants  in  America  receive  no  adequate  instruction  in  the  teachings,  polity, 

and  workings  of  the  American  Churches. 

2.  Roman  Catholics  do  not  know  what  Protestants  really  believe,  and  they  are  not 

being  aided  into  a proper  knowledge  of  Christianity  as  Protestants  hold  it. 

3.  Protestants  in  the  majority  of  cases  do  not  know  the  real  meaning  of  Roman 

Catholic  doctrines  and  are  in  no  condition  to  give  them  help. 

4.  Indians  have  no  literature  in  their  own  languages,  and  very  little  simply  written 

religious  literature  is  ever  furnished  them  in  the  English  language. 

5.  Negroes  as  a class  are  victims  of  superstitions  and  unintelligent  religious  notions 

and  must  long  remain  so  unless  aided  by  carefully  prepared  and  well-distrib- 
uted religious  literature. 

6.  Workmen  in  labor  unions  require  a new  message  from  the  Church  which  only 

well-prepared  literature  can  deliver. 

7.  Belated  people  of  all  classes  and  races  in  the  country  about  the  rims  of  the 

towns,  in  religiously  destitute  sections  of  the  cities,  in  the  mountains,  and  in 
and  about  factories  greatly  need  the  instruction  in  religion  which  only  Chris- 
tian literature  can  fully  supply. 

Teach  the  People 

1 . What  Protestants  really  believe  and  teach. 

2.  What  Roman  Catholics  really  believe  and  teach. 

3.  What  is  true  and  what  is  false  about  Christian  Science. 

4.  What  is  true  and  what  is  false  about  Russel lism  and  all  other  forms  of  millen- 

nialism. 

5.  What  is  true  and  what  is  false  about  “Holy  Rollerism,”  “Speaking 

With  Tongues,”  “Faith-Healing,”  and  kindred  subjects,  which  frequently 
engage  the  well-meaning  but  untutored  in  backward  communities. 

6.  What  Methodism  believes,  teaches,  and  stands  for  in  doctrine,  polity,  and 

service. 

Total  Askings 

For  Christian  Literature,  $20,000  a year  for  five  years,  or  $ 1 00,000. 


Miscellaneous 


The  West 


Will  be  provided  for  out  of  regular  income  of  the  Department  of  Home  Missions 
and  the  Board  of  Church  Extension. 


Church  Buildings  and  Parsonages 

This  work  is  under  the  Board  of  Church  Extension  and  by  it  will  be  cared  for. 


Factory  Communities 

1 . Hie  South  has  600  cotton  mills,  with  1 1 ,860,000  spindles.  Massachusetts  is 

first  in  number.  South  Carolina  second,  North  Carolina  third,  Georgia  fourth, 
and  Alabama  fifth.  The  South  has  1 50,000  cotton  mill  operators  and  700,- 
000  in  cotton  factory  communities. 

2.  The  Conference  Boards  of  Missions  in  these  States  have  been  providing  for 

these  persons,  but  the  entire  Church  should  give  assistance. 

3.  Textile  Industrial  Institute,  Spartanburg,  S.  C.,  is  a unique  institution  that 

allows  pupils  to  study  one  week  and  work  one  week  in  the  cotton  factory, 
alternately.  The  plant  is  worth  about  $100,000.  The  Church  might  well 
put  $150,000  into  this  institution.  None  is  more  worthy  nor  will  probably 
show  larger  dividends  upon  the  investment. 


Total  Askings 


For  Textile  Industrial  Institute,  $150,000. 


Department  of  Home  Missions 

EFFICIENCY  PROGRAM  FOR  FIVE  YEARS 

(In  addition  to  present  income) 


1 7 I 7-  I 'fi.D 

faJZ)  !o(Y\L  JS**  z.3  pt>  * * * 

Mountain  population  $ 750,000  ^ / 3 7’  / 

Immigrant  population  900,000;  / ® ^ * 

Negroes  500,000-.  / 0 ■ 6 ' 

Indians  150,000; 

Christian  literature  1 00,000  - p ,,  , b ITiS* 

Cotton  mill  population  \j>  0,000 

Supplement  to  salaries  Z$f0,000 


$5,400,000 


Analysis  of  Above 

MOUNTAIN  WORK 

1 0 schools  under  Conference  ownership  and 
control  need  $100,000  each.  Only  $50,- 
000  each  is  asked  for. 

To  carry  on  religious  and  social  service  work 
needed  by  the  mountain  population  will  re- 
quire not  less  than  $50,000  a year. 

FOREIGNERS 

3 schools  for  Mexicans  need  $ 1 00,000  each. 
30  churches  needed  will  require  $100,000. 

The  missions  and  missionaries  needed  will  call 
for  $50,000  a year. 

40  night  schools  to  teach  adults  English  will 
cost  $50,000  a year. 

NEGROES 

Paine  College  needs  $150,000  for  endowment 
and  $100,000  for  buildings  and  equipment. 
5 schools  of  the  Colored  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  should  have  $50,000  each. 

INDIANS 

A school  to  train  religious  teachers,  leaders,  and 
preachers  for  the  Indians  of  all  tribes  needed 
and  would  cost  $150,000. 

TEXTILE  INDUSTRIAL  INSTITUTE 
Textile  Industrial  Institute,  Spartanburg,  S.  C., 
for  cotton  mill  operatives,  should  have 

$150,000. 

CHRISTIAN  LITERATURE 
Nothing  is  needed  more  than  Christian  leaflet 
literature  for  distribution  in  religiously  neg- 
lected communities. 

SUPPLEMENT  TO  SALARIES 

To  raise  866  salaries  now  $400  or  less  to  $600  will  require  more  than  1 73,200  a year. 

To  raise  485  salaries  now  $401  to  $500  up  to  $600  will  require  more  than  $48,500  a year. 

To  raise  588  salaries  now  $601  to  $700  up  to  $1 ,000  will  require  more  than  $1  76,400  a year. 

To  raise  637  salaries  now  $701  to  $800  up  to  $ 1,000  will  require  more  than  $127,400  a year. 

To  raise  180  salaries  now  $801  to  $900  up  to  $1,000  will  require  more  than  $18,000  a year. 


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BOARD  of  CHURCH 
EXTENSION 


91 


The  Foreign  Field 

The  surveys  from  the  foreign  fields  indicate  that  one  of  the  special  features 
in  the  Missionary  Centenary  Movement  is  to  be  a great  evangelistic  drive  in 
important  and  strategic  centers  throughout  all  our  foreign  fields,  culminating  in 
the  building  of  a large  number  of  churches  and  parsonages. 

The  following  is  a list  of  churches  and  parsonages  which  have  been  asked 
for  the  foreign  fields: 


BRAZIL:  number  needed  94  16 

CHINA:  Number  needed  52  31 

CUBA:  Number  needed  4 1 1 

JAPAN:  Number  needed 40  35 

KOREA:  Number  needed  50  25 

MEXICO:  Number  needed  13  5 

Total  need  in  foreign  field  253  123 


The  Home  Field 


There  are  2,420  homeless  congregations,  and  there  are  1,600 
homeless  preachers. 

Total  church  buildings  needed,  home  and  foreign  fields,  2,673. 

An  average  of  $200  to  each  congregation  to  aid  in  ' Iding 

makes  a total  of $ 534,600 

A total  of  1,723  parsonages  is  needed  in  the  home  and  foreign 
fields.  An  average  of  $150  to  aid  in  building  each  parsonage 

makes  a total  of 258,450 

There  is  needed  an  average  of  $2,500  to  aid  in  constructing  insti- 
tutional church  buildings  in  40  industrial  centers,  making  a 

total  of 100,000 

Twenty  cities  are  in  need  of  aid  in  housing  congested  industrial  cen- 
ters to  the  amount  of  an  average  of  more  than  $5,000  each ...  1 06,950 


Total  amount  urgently  needed  above  regular  income  of  the 

Board  during  the  next  five  years $ 1 ,000,000 

LOAN  FUND 

The  present  demand  on  the  Loan  Fund  capital  of  the  Board  is  four 
times  as  much  as  the  present  $1,1 06,389.8 1 will  care  for.  That 
the  work  in  the  home  and  foreign  fields  may  be  adequately 


done,  there  is  urgent  demand  for  an  increase  in  this  fund  of . . . 1 ,000,000 

Total $2,000,000 


92 


cUhe 

CENTENARY 

of 

AMERICAN 

METHODIST 

MISSIONS 

Address  Delivered  Before 
World  Program  Committee 
at  Memphis , Term. 


By 

BISHOP  JAMES  ATKINS 


93 


The  Centenary  of  American  Methodist  Mis- 
sions; or,  Making  Democracy 
Safe  for  the  World 

The  Church  of  Christ  confronts  to-day  the  largest  times  in  all  its  history.  Even 
the  apostolic  period  is  surpassed  by  the  fact  that  the  very  successes  of  the  Church  have 
become  the  burden  of  its  existence  and  the  menace  of  its  future.  It  is  true  that  the 
Apostolic  Church  also  faced  a world  to  be  conquered,  but  there  is  a much  larger  world 
now  than  then  and  one  much  more  difficult  to  conquer.  The  intervening  ages  of  devel- 
opment have  brought  to  life  and  to  intrenchment,  if  not  to  positive  enthronement,  pow- 
ers of  resistance  which  at  first  lay  beyond  the  reach  of  men’s  imagination.  The  vitaliz- 
ing forces  of  Christianity  misdirected  have  made  the  foes  of  religion  vastly  stronger 
than  they  could  have  been  otherwise.  “Civilization”  uncivilized  is  more  nearly  invinci- 
ble than  was  the  bald  barbarism  of  the  earlier  times.  We  are  called  upon  to  live  and 
act  at  the  very  crux  of  this  terrible  period.  The  catastrophe  of  the  ages  is  on  in  the 
presence  of  the  well-nigh  universal  embroilment  in  which  the  race  is  involved. 

The  situation  awakes  the  prophet  in  the  breast  of  every  thoughtful  man.  The  wide- 
ness of  the  outlook  and  the  unfolding  tragedies  that  lie  within  it  bewilder  the  largest 
eyes  and  cause  the  strongest  hearts  to  tremble;  and  yet,  terrible  as  the  vision  is,  we 
cannot  but  look.  It  is  true  that  none  will  dare  to  foretell  when  the  end  will  come  or 
what  will  be  the  exact  settlement  of  the  political  and  civic  issues  involved,  but  all  can 
see  that  with  the  breaking  up  of  the  old  order  a new  and  larger  one  must  come.  Nor 
can  there  be  any  doubt  that  this  new  order  will  bring  the  largest  opportunity  for  the 
recasting  of  civilizations  that  has  come  to  men.  The  very  chaos  of  the  world’s  life  is 
calling  upon  men  to  exercise  their  genius  for  order  and  organization  as  never  before. 
While  the  disorganized  state  of  all  human  affairs  is  crying  aloud  for  reorganization  and 
thus  challenging  the  best  thought  of  the  most  far-visioned  men,  let  us  be  attent  to  hear 
God’s  voice  to  His  Church  as  He  speaks  to  us  through  the  roar  of  cannon  and  the  crash  of 
nations. 

A DEMOCRACY  SAFE  FOR  THE  WORLD 

One  of  the  largest  of  President  Wilson’s  many  wonderful  utterances  is  that  in 
which  he  stated  the  aim  of  America  in  entering  upon  this  unparalleled  war  when  he  said 
the  purpose  was  “to  make  the  world  safe  for  democracy.” 

This  is  truly  the  largest  civic  enterprise  that  has  ever  engaged  the  forces  of  civiliza- 
tion. That  nations,  without  regard  to  their  territorial  extent  or  military  powers,  shall 
be  allowed  to  work  out  their  destiny  according  to  the  peculiar  genius  of  each,  without 
fear  of  being  dominated  or  possibly  destroyed  by  adverse  imperial  powers,  is  a consum- 
mation worthy  of  all  the  vast  costs  of  the  achievement.  It  is  easy  to  see  that  the  out- 
come will  be  a civic,  political,  and  economic  order  which  will  surpass  all  the  pipe  dreams 
of  the  world’s  Utopian  statesmen.  This  is  the  task  of  the  Entente  armies  and  of  those 
who  stand  back  of  them  in  this  titanic  struggle. 

The  task  of  the  Church  may  be  well  expressed  by  a simple  reversion  of  the  terms 
in  Mr.  Wilson’s  statement.  “The  task  of  the  Church  is  to  make  democracy  safe  for  the 
world.”  This  is,  indeed,  the  larger  and  the  longer  task.  The  mere  production  of  repub- 
lican forms  of  government  is  not  enough.  The  republic  of  Mexico  was  bom  of  a sudden 
revolution,  and  for  lack  of  an  intelligent  and  faithful  citizenship  it  is  to  this  day  failing 
to  meet  the  just  expectation  of  the  world.  The  republic  of  China  sprang  up  like  Jonah’s 
gourd  in  a night  and  perished  like  it  in  a day.  The  revolution  in  Russia  quickly  set  aside 
a despotic  Czar;  but  the  democracy,  for  the  lack  of  prepared  citizenship  and  seasoned 
leadership,  has  run  a wild  career  of  dishonesty,  treachery  and  butchery  that  is  enough 
to  make  even  the  deposed  Czar  blush  for  shame  of  his  people  and  to  feel  that  a sufficient 
penalty  has  been  visited  upon  those  who  dethroned  him. 

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94 


The  safety  of  democracy  for  the  world  depends  wholly  upon  the  character  of  the 
democracy.  The  task  of  the  Church,  therefore,  is,  by  its  evangelical  and  educational 
processes,  to  transform  the  citizenship  of  the  world  into  preparedness  for  meeting  the 
issues  of  this  new  and  larger  scheme  of  life.  This,  of  course,  embraces  not  only  the 
conversion  of  the  heathen  world,  but  also  the  readjustment  of  the  so-called  Christian 
nations  on  the  basis  of  the  altruistic  ideals  of  the  gospel  of  Christ 

LEADERS  WAKING  UP 

It  is  gratifying  to  note  that  the  leaders  of  the  Church  are  already  beginning  to  recog- 
nize the  need  of  a larger  program  if  the  situation  on  the  religious  side  is  to  be  adequately 
met.  The  startling  facts  which  are  calculated  to  stir  the  Church  to  its  depths  are  two. 
The  first  of  these  is  the  humiliating  fact  that  all  the  nations  involved  in  this  struggle  are, 
with  the  exception  of  the  Ottoman  vassal,  the  Christian  nations.  The  other  is  that 
the  nature  of  the  conflict  is  involving  the  violation  of  everything  taught  by  Christ  on  the 
scale  hitherto  undreamed  of  in  the  annals  of  war.  The  first  of  these  facts  goes  to  show 
that  the  peace  of  the  world  is  not  safe  until  nations  are  so  far  enlightened  and  spiritualized 
as  to  recognize  the  authority  of  the  gospel  of  Christ.  The  occurrence  of  such  a war 
does  not  prove  that  Christianity  has  in  it  no  power  to  guide  the  life  of  nations  even  as  it 
does  that  of  individuals  and  communities,  but  it  proves  only  that  some  of  these  so-called 
Christian  nations  were  not  as  Christian  as  they  were  supposed  to  be  and  as  they  thought 
themselves.  This  situation  alone,  if  there  were  no  outlying  heathen  domains  to  be  con- 
quered, would  impose  upon  the  Church  a task  of  evangelization  and  education  vaster  than 
any  yet  conceived  of.  But  when  we  turn  to  include  in  this  view  the  millions  of  heathen 
who  look  dumbly  on  this  scene  and  await  the  voice  of  Christianity  to  explain  these  orgies 
of  hate  and  to  bring  them  beyond  it,  we  are  appalled  at  the  vastness  of  the  undertaking. 

But  as  we  face  these  stupendous  issues  let  us  not  forget  that  the  task  assigned  to  the 
Church  by  Christ,  its  Founder,  was  to  do  the  “impossible.”  The  power  to  do  this  has 
been  exemplified  in  all  circles.  The  individual  who  cannot  by  all  incentives,  inducements, 
education,  and  coercion  be  changed  of  his  spots  is  instantly  made  a new  creature  in 
Christ  by  the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  the  same  Spirit  works  to  the  same  end  in 
communities  and  nations.  He  unto  whom  all  power  is  given  in  heaven  and  on  earth,  He 
who  said,  “Go,  disciple  all  nations,”  He  at  whose  resurrection  the  graves  gave  forth  their 
“sheeted  dead”  in  testimony  of  His  power  to  conquer  even  death.  He,  the  express  Image 
of  the  Father’s  glory,  is  with  us.  He  pledges  all  wisdom,  all  power,  and  all  resources 
necessary  to  fulfill  the  Father’s  promise  in  Him  through  us.  The  time  has  come  for 
an  enlarged  interpretation  of  Paul’s  victorious  cry:  “I  can  do  all  things  through  Christ 

which  strengtheneth  me.”  And  the  only  becoming  battle  cry  for  the  Church  in  the 
presence  of  these  mammoth  issues  is  that  of  the  Psalmist:  “The  Lord  of  hosts  is  with 

us;  the  God  of  Jacob  is  our  refuge.” 

I began  with  the  statement  that  these  are  the  largest  times  in  the  history  of  the  world 
and  have  already  spoken  a mere  word  as  to  the  greatness  of  the  issues  involved  and  of  the 
antagonisms  to  be  met.  I have  done  this  because  it  is  never  wise  to  underestimate  the 
strength  of  an  enemy  or  minimize  the  size  of  a work  to  be  done.  But  there  is  another 
side  which  has  in  it  all  the  elements  necessary  for  the  heartening  of  courageous  men. 

Let  us  take  a glance  at  the  merely  human  elements  which  belong  to  the  problem. 

THE  LARGENESS  OF  OUR  WEALTH 

The  nation’s  wealth,  while  easily  within  the  reach  of  mathematical  calculation,  has 
gone  beyond  the  reach  of  human  conception.  It  is  easy  to  call  the  figures,  but  impossible 
to  grasp  the  notion.  The  wealth  of  the  United  States  now  approximates  $250,000,000,- 
000  and  is  increasing  at  a rate,  especially  in  the  last  three  years,  that  bewilders  financiers. 
It  is  commonly  agreed  that  we  are  now  coming  into  possession  of  enough  free  capital  to  begin 
fairly  the  development  of  our  immense  resources.  We  are  now  by  far  the  richest  nation 
on  earth,  and  the  close  of  this  century  may  find  us  as  rich  as  all  others  combined. 


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If  it  be  assumed,  as  it  reasonably  may  be,  that  the  members  of  the  American 
Churches  share  equally  with  the  outside  millions  in  the  ownership  and  direction  of  this 
wealth,  we  may  come  to  see  something  of  their  power  and  their  consequent  responsibility 
in  its  use.  The  two  great  Methodisms  of  this  country  which  are  joining  in  the  celebration 
of  this  Centenary  of  Methodist  Missions  now  number  more  than  6,000,000  members. 
According  to  the  per  capita  measure,  they  would  thus  be  in  control  of  about  six  per  cent, 
of  the  national  wealth,  or  approximately  $15,000,000,000. 

THINKING  IN  LARGE  FIGURES 

The  language  of  our  common  life  is  forcing  our  thought  into  broader  fields.  Tire 
astronomers,  when  calculating  the  distance  of  the  heavenly  bodies,  make  a million  of  miles 
the  unit,  one.  Our  larger  financiers  are  making  a million  of  dollars  the  unit  of  their  calcu- 
lations. We  talk  in  millions,  hundreds  of  millions  and  billions.  When  the  first 
billion-dollar  Congress  finished  its  work,  the  vastness  of  the  sum  was  sounded  forth  not 
only  through  the  ranks  of  the  political  parties,  but  round  the  whole  earth.  Now  we  raise 
billions  a year  for  war  by  taxation  and  many  other  billions  otherwise,  and  nobody  is 
alarmed,  nobody  is  even  surprised. 

MOVING  AS  ONE 

One  of  the  most  striking  features  of  this  time  of  stress  is  that  it  is  causing  men  to 
move  together  as  never  before.  The  magnitude  of  the  undertaking  calls  for  united  action 
and  gives  birth  to  vast  common  impulses  which  are  making  every  man  realize  his  partner- 
ship in  all  the  movements  of  the  hour.  The  ennobling  and  empowering  effect  of  this 
consciousness  can  scarcely  be  overrated.  It  is  making  larger  men  every  day.  It  is 
multiplying  the  ordinary  unit  of  life  beyond  its  normal  strength  and  thus  in  large  measure 
making  the  race  anew.  He  is  an  insensible  man  who  does  not  feel  the  touch  and  thrill 
of  this  mighty  impulse. 

IT  IS  EASY  TO  DO  LARGE  THINGS 

Men  are  finding  out,  to  the  great  benefit  of  progress,  that  it  is  easier  to  do  a large  thing 
than  a small  one.  The  reason  underlying  this  fact  is  not  far  to  find.  Men  of  large 
intellect  who  are  capable  of  creating  and  managing  large  estates  and  businesses  are,  by  all 
habits  of  thought,  opposed  to  piddling.  To  piddle  at  their  own  affairs  would,  they 
know,  ruin  their  fortunes.  Therefore  when  small  enterprises,  however  innocent  or  even 
good,  are  proposed,  they  do,  if  anything,  only  the  small  thing  demanded.  When,  on  the 
other  hand,  the  enterprise  is  truly  great,  it  inspires  their  respect,  engenders  their  enthusi- 
asm, and  commands  their  resources.  Even  to  this  time  the  chief  fault  of  the  Church  on 
the  economic  side  has  been  the  lowness  of  its  demands.  The  ministerial  leadership  has 
failed  to  comprehend  and  reveal  the  vastness  of  the  work  to  be  done  and  to  preach  the 
whole  gospel  of  Christ  concerning  wealth,  and  the  laymen  have  been  too  easily  content 
to  live  at  ease  under  the  protection  of  these  false  standards. 

THE  LAYMAN’S  DAY 

It  is  a fortunate  fact  that  just  at  the  time  when  we  are  called  to  deal  with  these  large 
events  the  laymen  are  coming  into  places  of  power  in  the  councils  of  the  Church.  They 
are  already  in  position  to  think  for  the  Church  in  the  large  terms  which  belong  to  the 
world  of  economics.  They  are  coming  to  realize  also  the  force  of  the  old  doctrine  of  the 
political  economists  that  a dollar  is  the  equivalent  of  a man’s  day’s  work  and  that  dollars 
are  not  dead  substances  to  be  juggled  with  or  gambled  with,  but  living  forces  capable  of 
being  directed  to  the  achievement  of  all  manner  of  human  good  or  human  ill.  It  will  be 
a blessed  day,  not  only  for  religion,  but  for  the  business  and  social  life  of  the  world,  when 
laymen  recognize  the  truth  that  a man,  by  the  consecration  of  his  business  to  the  service 
of  God  and  mankind,  may  lead  a life  as  truly  apostolic  in  its  spirit  and  outcome  as  if  he 
bore  the  parchments  of  ordination  or  occupied  a pulpit  throne.  Jesus,  the  Founder  of 


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the  kingdom,  in  His  most  extraordinary  system  of  economics  has  commanded  us  to  lay 
up  for  ourselves  treasure  in  heaven.  On  close  analysis  we  find  it  impossible  to  do  this 
except  in  one  way.  No  man  can  take  any  of  his  treasure  with  him  except  such  as  has 
been  produced  in  his  own  character  by  the  use  he  has  made  of  his  treasure  here.  There 
is  not  in  the  whole  length  of  the  river  Styx  a single  ferryboat  which  can  transport  so 
much  as  one  grain  of  gold  out  of  this  world  into  the  next.  Nor  can  any  man  go  forward 
and  bring  his  treasures  later.  No  dead  hand  can  manage  a living  business,  and  especially 
this  business.  The  only  way  to  lay  up  treasure  in  heaven  is  to  send  it  ahead  of  us,  and 
there  is  only  one  way  in  which  this  can  be  done.  Nothing  can  cross  out  of  this  material 
world  into  the  immaterial  and  eternal  world  except  personalities.  It  follows,  therefore, 
that  the  only  way  we  can  send  our  treasure  ahead  is  to  put  it  into  persons.  And  is  not 
this  the  very  thing  about  which  all  the  work  of  the  Church  is  conversant  as  it  seeks 
through  education  and  missions  to  uplit  and  save  the  world? 

NO  LONGER  A POOR  CHURCH 

We  are  still  working  too  largely  under  standards  which  were  established  amidst  the 
desolations  following  the  War  between  the  States.  Then  and  thereafter  we  acquired  the 

habit  of  thinking  of  ourselves  as  a poor  Church.  I can  remember  when  there  was  but 

a single  reputed  millionaire  in  our  communion,  and  he  wras  more  noted  for  what  he  kept 
than  for  what  he  gave.  We  have  now  grown  rich.  We  have  scores,  if  not  hundreds,  of 
members  whose  wealth  has  passed  the  million  mark,  while  our  total  membership  averages 
large  in  its  holdings  and  productiveness.  There  is  now  no  reason  why  in  financial  mat- 
ters we  may  not  measure  up  to  all  the  reasonable  demands  of  the  kingdom  of  God.  Any 
failure  to  do  so  must  be  accounted  for  in  some  other  direction.  Both  our  souls  and  our 
ecclesiasticism  are  being  frightfully  endangered  by  the  luxuries  and  aimlessness  of  life 
which  our  wealth  has  brought.  There  is  a way  out  of  this  danger,  but  we  must  pay  high 
to  travel  the  road  that  leads  to  safety. 

THE  NEED  OF  THE  HOUR 

The  greatest  need  of  the  hour  is  a money  conscience.  Many  seem  to  have  lost  the 
sense  of  their  relation  to  God  in  making  and  using  of  money.  Jesus  taught  with  the 
utmost  emphasis  that  we  hold  all  our  gifts  and  possessions,  even  life  itself,  as  mere  stew- 
ards of  his;  and  yet  in  all  the  wide  fields  of  demand  we  are  not  approximating  even  the 
Jewish  law  of  the  tithe.  Very  few  have  even  considered  the  question  of  genuine  sacri- 
fice in  the  use  of  their  money,  and  yet  the  law  of  sacrifice  is  the  law  of  life  in  the  king- 
dom of  God.  To  become  poor  in  order  to  make  others  rich  is  a test  which  surpasses  that 
of  the  stake  and  the  fagot.  The  heroism  of  giving  is  at  once  the  highest  in  quality  and 
least  in  quantity.  We  have  many  among  us  who  by  startling  gifts  need  to  purchase  lib- 
erty bonds  and  escape  from  the  thraldom  of  a withering  and  blighting  selfishness. 

The  object  about  which  this  meeting  is  conversant  is  not  a subscription  nor  a collec- 
tion nor  anything  of  that  nature.  It  is  that  a company  of  carefully  selected  laymen  may, 
after  having  submitted  to  them  thoroughly  made  estimates  of  the  needs  of  the  various 
mission  fields  at  home  and  abroad,  determine  what  amount  we  should  undertake  to  raise 
per  annum  for  a period  of  five  years.  It  is  not  my  purpose  to  say  so  much  as  a word  in 
regard  to  the  estimates  that  are  to  be  submitted  to  you  as  the  basis  of  your  work  here. 
But  it  is  well  to  note  at  the  outset  that  we  are  now  raising  between  $2,000,000  and 
$2,500,000  per  year  for  home  and  foreign  missions  and  Church  extension — that  is,  about 
one  dollar  per  capita  for  all  three  purposes.  The  situation  which  now  confronts  us  and 
the  one  with  which  you  are  called  to  deal  is  that  all  mission  fields  and  almost  every  enter- 
prise within  each  field  are  so  hampered  by  lack  of  funds  that  further  progress  is  almost 
impossible. 

This  meeting  is  preparatory  to  a proper  celebration  of  the  Centenary  of  American 
Methodist  Missions.  Both  the  great  Methodist  Episcopal  Churches  are  joining  in  the 
movement  and  are  doing  so  in  a spirit  of  most  beautiful  and  ennobling  fraternity  and  with 


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a single  aim.  That  aim  is  not  to  produce  a great  pageant,  either  scenic  or  verbal,  but  to 
plan  for  a wiser  and  larger  work  than  has  ever  been  conceived  of  before  by  the  people 
called  Methodists.  Two  great  union  meetings  have  been  already  provided  for,  one  in  the 
North  and  one  in  the  South,  with  similar  programs  and  the  same  purpose. 

You,  gentlemen,  have  been  selected  and  called  together  for  the  purpose  of  consider- 
ing the  data  to  be  submitted  to  you  from  all  our  fields  and  then — after  counsel  and  much 
prayer,  I trust — to  come  forth  and  sound  the  keynote  and  to  ring  forth  the  bugle  blast 
that  is  to  rouse  more  than  2,000,000  Southern  Methodists  to  the  mightiest  and  most  glo- 
rious task  in  all  our  history. 

I have  delayed  till  the  last  to  utter  the  most  important  word  of  all — namely,  that  if 
we  are  to  accomplish  that  large  results  for  which  this  movement  calls,  we  need  to  be  very 
much  in  prayer — prayer  that  our  faith  may  be  enriched  and  enlarged  to  grasp  in  good 
measure  the  vastness  of  God’s  purpose  in  this  providential  occasion,  prayer  that  our  love 
may  be  fanned  into  a burning  and  irresistible  passion  for  the  salvation  of  men.  After  the 
size  of  our  task  has  been  determined,  the  first  step  will  be  the  organization  of  a prayer 
circle  in  which  millions  will  join  daily  in  asking  God’s  help  in  the  achievement  of  all  our 
hopes  for  the  good  of  mankind.  If  six  millions  of  Methodists  baptized  with  the  Spirit  go 
from  their  knees  to  any  task,  it  shall  be  done.  Let  us  adopt  now  for  our  communion  and 
all  Methodists  Paul’s  great  prayer  for  the  Ephesians : 

“That  the  God  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  Father  of  glory,  may  give  unto  you  a 
spirit  of  wisdom  and  revelation  in  the  knowledge  of  Him;  having  the  eyes  of  your  heart 
enlightened,  that  ye  may  know  what  is  the  hope  of  His  calling,  what  the  riches  of  the 
glory  of  His  inheritance  in  the  saints,  and  what  the  exceeding  greatness  of  His  power  to 
reward  who  believe,  according  to  that  working  of  the  strength  of  His  mind  which  He 
wrought  in  Christ,  when  He  raised  Him  from  the  dead,  and  made  Him  to  sit  at  His  right 
hand  in  heavenly  places,  far  above  all  rule,  and  authority,  and  power,  and  dominion,  and 
every  name  that  is  named,  not  only  in  this  world,  but  also  in  that  which  is  to  come.” 

“Now  unto  Him  that  is  able  to  do  exceeding  abundantly  above  all  that  we  ask  or 
think,  according  to  the  power  that  worketh  in  us,  unto  Him  be  the  glory  in  the  Church 
and  in  Christ  Jesus  unto  all  generations  forever  and  ever.  Amen.” 


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FINDINGS  OF 
THE  COMMITTEE  OF 
ONE  HUNDRED 

on  the 

WORLD  PROGRAM 


MEMPHIS,  TENNESSEE 
MARCH  1 9-2 1 
1918 


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Report  of  Committee  on  Findings 

The  situation,  in  the  light  of  the  great  war,  is  extraordinary,  as  it  affects  the  nations 
of  the  earth  from  a political,  an  economic,  and  a social  standpoint.  Readjustment  and  re- 
construction following  this  war  are  inevitable.  The  forces  at  work  are  world-wide  in 
their  sweep  and  significance  and  are  potential  for  evil  or  for  good  as  they  are  ignored  and 
neglected  on  the  one  hand  or  measured  and  mastered  on  the  other.  If  supreme  and 
heroic  efforts  be  not  put  forth  at  this  juncture,  the  powers  of  darkness  will  be  organized 
and  intrenched  as  never  before.  We  cannot  afford  to  wait.  It  is  the  Church’s  supreme 
opportunity.  She  must  rise  to  the  emergency,  shape  events  with  a master  hand,  re-en- 
force her  missionary  workers  in  every  field  and  in  every  department  of  Christian  activ- 
ity, adequately  equip  her  institutions  at  home  and  abroad,  and  plant  her  standards  in 
every  field,  until  she  shall  have  fulfilled  the  imperial  command  to  preach  the  gospel  to 
every  creature. 

All  power  is  with  God,  and  the  timing  of  events  is  also  with  Him.  We  are  pro- 
foundly convinced  that  the  hour  has  struck  when  the  evangelization  of  the  world  should  be 
undertaken  with  renewed  zeal,  enlarged  faith,  and  a substantial  prospect  of  its  being 
carried  to  an  early  and  complete  consummation.  It  is  this  world-wide  enterprise  for  which 
the  Church  stands,  upon  its  faithful  prosecution  the  very  existence  of  the  Church  depends, 
and  to  such  a task  the  Church  must  give  her  strength  and  her  very  life  or  fail  in  her  alle- 
giance to  her  Lord.  To  Him,  therefore,  and  to  this  enterprise,  we  hereby  pledge  our  time, 
our  energies,  our  gifts,  and  our  prayers. 

The  call  to  advance  rings  down  the  line  and,  by  a remarkable  providence,  comes  at 
the  very  time  when  the  Board  of  Missions  has  thrown  off  its  indebtedness  and  when  this 
Board  and  the  Board  of  Church  Extension  have  added  largely  to  their  available  assets. 

We  would  fully  indorse  and  give  emphasis  to  the  action  of  the  Board  of  Missions 
in  constituting  a Centenary  Commission  and  would  recommend  that  the  Commission,  under 
the  approval  of  the  Board,  lay  the  missionary  situation,  its  claims  and  its  urgent  demands, 
before  the  approaching  General  Conference  and  request  that  body  by  special  action  to 
give  emphasis  to  this  great  world  program  of  missions  which  is  due  the  great  commission 
of  our  Lord  under  which  the  Church  has  received  her  marching  orders. 

By  every  token  the  Church  must  go  forward,  press  the  battle,  occupy  the  field  so 
providentially  prepared,  and  carry  home  the  message  until  every  creature  shall  know  that 
Jesus  Christ  is  able  to  save  to  the  uttermost.  To  hesitate  is  to  fail  in  the  supreme  hour 
of  opportunity.  To  stand  still  is  to  imperil  every  step  already  taken.  The  Church  must 
follow  her  Lord  and  go  forward. 

In  order  that  the  purpose  of  the  Centenary  Celebration  may  be  carried  out  we  rec- 
ommend, without  attempting  to  prescribe  details,  that  the  following  lines  of  endeavor  be 
undertaken: 

I.  INTERCESSION 

The  world  crisis  and  our  tremendous  resources  of  men  and  money  create  an  unprece- 
dented responsibility,  but  to  depend  upon  mere  human  resources  would  in  this  spiritual 
enterprise  be  presumptive.  Spiritual  resources  infinitely  outweigh  the  material.  Christ 
Himself  indicated  the  order  of  procedure  when  He  commanded  His  disciples  to  pray  for 
laborers.  Through  prayer  we  come  into  harmony  with  God’s  will  and  have  his  co-opera- 
tion in  finding  laborers  and  in  bringing  ourselves  under  the  enlightening  and  strengthen- 
ing guidance  of  His  Holy  Spirit.  Realizing  our  past  shortcomings,  we  should  first 
seek  pardon  for  failures  and  lack  of  faith  and  then  daily  and  hourly  call  upon  God 
for  help  in  this  crisis  of  Christianity.  We  desire  to  enlist  the  prayers  of  all  our  people 
for  greater  zeal  and  consecration,  for  a large  increase  in  the  number  of  missionaries,  for 
larger  liberality  in  offerings,  and  for  the  dedication  of  the  so-called  secular  activities  of 
our  people  to  spiritual  ends.  We  commend  the  plans  already  in  use  by  the  Commission’s 
Department  of  Spiritual  Resources  and  Intercession  for  prayer  covenants  and  the  forma- 
tion of  prayer  leagues  in  our  Annual,  District,  Quarterly,  and  Church  Conferences  and 


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the  creation  and  circulation  of  adequate  literature  setting  forth  the  place  of  prayer  in 
Christ’s  plan  for  saving  the  world.  Let  us  advance  on  our  knees. 

II.  PUBLICITY 

The  power  of  the  press  today  is  almost  incalculable.  Movements,  great  and  small, 
depend  on  the  co-operation  of  the  press.  This  movement  expects,  and  undoubtedly  will 
have,  the  full  support  of  our  press. 

Never  was  the  secular  press  so  eager  for  Church  news.  This,  the  most  potential 
movement  of  Methodism,  is  such  a heroic  challenge  that  the  press  will  doubtless  clamor 
for  its  thrilling  narratives.  We  therefore  urge  our  pastors  and  other  leaders  to  utilize  all 
possible  aid  of  the  secular  press. 

We  believe  that  our  Board  of  Missions  is  justified  in  employing  publicity  experts; 
and  we  suggest,  in  view  of  the  valuable  and  necessary  service  rendered  to  all  our  enter- 
prises by  the  Church  press,  that  the  General  Conference  be  urged  to  devise  plans  for  the 
more  adequate  support  and  larger  circulation  of  our  Church  papers.  It  is  assumed  that 
every  pulpit  and  every  organization  in  the  Church  will  become  a medium  of  publicity 
and  that  every  member,  from  the  chief  pastors  to  the  humblest  members,  will  become 
heralds  of  this  mighty  missionary  movement. 

III.  STEWARDSHIP  AND  FINANCE 

Recognizing  that  we  hold  our  property,  not  as  absolute  owners,  but  as  stewards, 
and  believing  that  our  marvelous  financial  prosperity,  without  precedent  in  all  history, 
is  a definite  challenge  to  our  faithfulness,  and  appreciating  the  opportunity  to  transmute 
material  and  perishable  things  into  spiritual  and  eternal  values,  we  direct  the  attention 
of  our  people  to  the  world’s  inviting  field  and  ask  for  investment  commensurate  with  our 
means  and  adequate  to  the  needs  of  our  missionary  enterprise. 

We  appreciate  the  splendid  surveys  prepared  by  our  Secretaries,  with  the  co-opera- 
tion of  our  missionaries;  and  having  carefully  considered  the  askings  of  our  several  mis- 
sion fields  as  presented  through  officers  of  our  Board  of  Missions  and  Board  of  Church 
Extension,  we  are  convinced  that  the  aggregate  of  estimates  is  conservative  and  will 
barely  meet  our  immediate  necessities.  We  therefore  recommend  that  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  South,  under  the  auspices  of  its  Centenary  Commission,  raise  as  a 
Centenary  Fund  $4,000,000  a year  for  five  years,  making  a total  of  $20,000,000. 

We  further  recommend  that  the  present  regular  income  of  approximately  $2,000,000 
a year — $10,000,000  for  the  five  years — be  added  to  the  $20,000,000,  making  a grand 
total  of  $30,000,000  as  the  goal  for  five  years. 

The  titanic  struggle  for  liberty  and  democracy  into  which  our  country  has  been 
precipitated  has  brought  with  it  new  and  enlarged  responsibilities  in  America  and  across 
the  sea,  in  France,  Belgium,  Italy,  Serbia,  and  Russia.  The  heroic  spirit  of  our  soldiers 
and  of  our  people  fires  our  patriotism  afresh  and  inspires  us  to  a renewed  sense  of  obli- 
gation to  sacrificial  service. 

We  heartily  indorse  the  action  of  our  College  of  Bishops  in  authorizing  war  work 
at  home  and  abroad.  In  view  of  the  rapidly  growing  demands  for  chaplains,  camp  work- 
ers and  their  equipment,  hospitals,  trained  nurses,  and  a personal  ministry  in  camp  and 
in  field,  and  in  view  of  the  possibilities  growing  out  of  new  and  inviting  fields  for  evan- 
gelistic effort  in  Europe  and  the  Near  East,  we  would  recommend  the  additional  sum  of 
$1,000,000  a year  for  five  years,  making  a grand  total  of  $35,000,000  as  a minimum, 
and  that  no  maximum  limit  be  fixed. 

We  recommend  that  all  our  plans  for  the  raising  of  these  additional  funds  be  so  laid 
and  operated  as  not  to  hinder  but  to  help  in  elevating  the  Church’s  normal  yearly  in- 
come to  at  least  double  the  present  amount,  so  that  we  shall  be  in  position  at  the  end  of 
five  years  to  take  care  of  the  increased  yearly  demand  on  our  Board  growing  out  of  the 
five  year’s  extraordinary  expansion. 


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These  recommendations  are  made  with  the  full  understanding  that  the  most  thor- 
ough and  businesslike  financial  organization  be  created  by  the  proper  Church  authorities 
and  that  the  raising  of  the  money  is  to  be  utilized  in  the  development  of  the  spiritual  life 
of  our  people,  so  that  they  shall  be  prepared  for  greater  undertakings  in  every  depart- 
ment of  Church  activity. 

IV.  ENLISTING  WORKERS 

Hie  need  of  men  and  women  of  capacity,  courage,  high  purpose,  and  deep  conse- 
cration is  even  greater  than  the  need  of  money.  With  the  unparalleled  demands  of  the 
changing  order  and  a world  undergoing  reconstruction,  we  are  convinced  that  steps 
should  be  taken  to  enlist  for  Christian  service  at  home  and  abroad  our  best-equipped 
young  men,  either  now  exempt  from  military  duty  or  hereafter  returning  from  Europe, 
and  many  heroic  women  who  are  even  now  ready  to  serve  their  Church  and  their 
country. 

V.  A PROGRAM  FOR  AMERICAN  METHODISM 

We  heartily  concur  in  the  recommendation  of  the  Niagara  Conference  of  the 
Centenary  Commission  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  that  a joint  meeting  be  held  at 
some  early  date  for  the  formulation  of  a world  program  for  American  Methodism,  and  we 
suggest  that  an  appropriate  occasion  for  such  a meeting  be  the  Conference  of  One 
Thousand  to  be  held  at  Junaluska,  June  26-30. 

VI.  DEPUTATION  WORK 

It  is  the  sense  of  this  meeting  that  as  high  strategy  for  the  clearer  understanding 
and  more  effective  promotion  of  the  world  program  of  American  Methodism,  strong 
deputations  of  our  laymen,  together  with  pastors  and  bishops,  be  secured  for  immediate 
special  visitation  of  our  work  in  other  lands  and  that,  so  far  as  possible,  these  visitations 
be  conducted  jointly  with  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  To  that  end  we  hereby  re- 
quest the  Joint  Centenary  Commission  of  the  two  Churches  to  make  adequate  provision 
for  the  enlistment  of  such  deputation. 

VII.  PERSONAL  PREPARATION 

In  view  of  the  supernatural  element  in  all  this  work  of  world-wide  missions  in  which 
the  aim  is  to  present  Jesus  Christ,  we  would  recommend  that  the  greatest  possible  em- 
phasis be  placed  upon  devotional  Bible  study,  the  deepening  of  the  spiritual  life,  and  that 
intercession  which  releases  the  power  of  God  without  which  we  cannot  do  the  work  of 
God. 

W.  R.  Lambuth,  Chairman; 

A.  C.  MlLLAR,  Secretary; 

R.  E.  Turnipseed, 

O.  E.  Goddard, 

Belle  Bennett, 

L.  G.  Glyde, 

J.  S.  Carr, 

Thomas  S.  Southgate, 

J.  J.  Gray, 

P.  M.  Enochs, 

W.  H.  Stockham. 


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ACTION  REGARDING 
CENTENARY 

GENERAL  CONFERENCE 

ATLANTA,  GEORGIA 
MAY,  1918 


thirty-five  'Trillions 
for  tf&issions 


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General  Conference  Action  Regarding 
the  Centenary 

In  response  to  memorials  from  the  Board  of  Missions,  the  Board  of  Church  Exten- 
sion, and  the  Laymen’s  Missionary  Movement  concerning  a Missionary  Centenary,  your 
Committee  on  Missions  makes  the  following  deliverances  and  recommendations: 

As  a General  Conference  we  meet  at  a time  when  the  age-old  contest  between 
Christianity  and  heathenism  has  drenched  the  world  in  blood,  and  the  powers  of  darkness 
threaten  to  engulf  humanity  in  a mighty  cataclysm.  All  Europe  is  bleeding.  Lands 
despoiled,  cities  burned,  homes  destroyed,  husbands  dead,  widows  in  mourning,  children 
starving,  schools  closed,  vice  rampant,  poverty  everywhere,  the  hearts  of  men  are  sore 
and  broken.  Throughout  the  earth  the  children  of  men  are  in  gloom  and  despair.  They 
raise  their  helpless  hands  toward  heaven  and  ask:  “Is  God  dead?  Where  is  Christian- 

ity, that  all  this  ruin  and  gloom  have  come  upon  us?” 

In  the  midst  of  this  wreck  and  despair  is  the  Church  of  God  to  pursue  the  even 
tenor  of  its  way,  with  no  heroism  to  match  that  of  the  soldier  boys  who  have  buckled 
on  the  sword  and  gone  forth  to  give  their  lives  in  order  that  the  world  may  be  free? 
Is  the  Church  to  say  that  the  government  is  doing  all  that  America  needs  to  do  for  the 
broken  and  despoiled  and  despairing  peoples  of  Europe  and  the  rest  of  the  world?  Does 
our  Church  have  no  distinctive  work  to  do  for  them? 

The  world  that  existed  prior  to  the  international  earthquake  will  never  be  the  same 
again.  No  man  can  go  through  a great  trial  in  which  every  faculty  of  mind  and  spirit 
and  body  is  put  to  the  extremest  test  and  afterwards  be  the  same  man  he  was  before 
that  trial  began.  The  same  is  true  of  peoples  and  nations  and  Churches.  This  great 
world  trial  will  prove  the  savior  of  life  unto  life  or  death  unto  death,  not  only  as  to 
nations,  but  as  to  Churches,  ours  among  the  others.  To  wrap  ourselves  in  comfortable 
complacency  means  that  our  salt  will  lose  its  savor  and  that  corrosive  selfishness  will 
eat  our  spiritual  life. 

The  Church  of  God  has  always  gone  where  sorrow  and  suffering  abound.  Her 
commission  is,  and  was  the  commission  of  her  Lord,  “to  preach  the  gospel  to  the  poor, 
to  proclaim  release  to  the  captives,  the  recovering  of  sight  to  the  blind,  to  set  at  liberty 
them  that  are  bruised,  and  to  proclaim  the  acceptable  year  of  the  Lord.”  In  this  hour 
of  world-wide  gloom  and  sorrow  it  is  the  duty  of  our  Church  to  proclaim  to  the  broken- 
hearted peoples  that  there  is  a balm  in  Gilead.  It  should  be  her  joy,  as  it  wall  be  her 
glorious  honor,  to  cure  souls  that  are  sore  and  sick.  Every  patriotic  American  should 
thank  God  for  the  government  of  the  United  States.  That  she  has  raised  the  war  above 
the  plane  of  barbarity  and  made  it  a war  for  humanity;  that  she  has  made  it  a war  for 
Christian  principles  and  not  one  for  commerce  and  dominion,  except  as  these  things 
come  as  the  natural  fruits  of  righteousness  and  justice  to  others;  that  she  has  mag- 
nanimously handed  over  billions  of  dollars  to  sustain  her  allied  nations;  that  she  is 
straining  every  power  of  purse  and  resource  of  field  and  mine  and  factory  to  make  the 
world  safe  for  democracy — makes  our  hearts  throb  with  unbounded  thankfulness  and 
unalloyed  patriotic  pride.  But  shall  the  government  strain  all  her  resources  to  the 
utmost  limit  and  we  as  a Church  make  no  unusual  effort  to  perform  our  Heaven- 
imposed  duty  to  give  the  Gospel  of  the  Son  of  God  to  the  sorrowing  and  dying? 

The  duty  is  not  only  great;  the  opportunity  is  equally  great.  Almost  every  one  of 
the  twenty  and  more  allied  nations  considers  America  her  best  friend.  The  suspicious 
former  years  have  disappeared,  and  now  a friendly  hand  will  be  held  out  to  any  conse- 
crated missionary  or  preacher  we  may  send  to  them.  The  doors  are  wide  open.  We 
are  asked  to  enter  in  the  name  of  Jesus.  At  no  other  time  in  the  last  hundred  years 
would  Protestantism  have  had  so  joyous  a welcome  in  chivalrous  France,  and  the 
preachers  from  America  would  be  more  gladly  received  there  than  those  of  any  other 
Protestant  country.  Is  there  a man  in  Southern  Methodism  whose  heart  would  not  expand 
with  grace  and  holy  enthusiasm  if  his  Church  would  lead  out  in  carrying  a free  evan- 


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gelistic  gospel  to  heroic  and  glorious  France?  Russia,  held  down  for  hundreds  of  years 
by  ignorance,  cruelty,  vodka,  and  superstition,  has  broken  the  bonds  of  her  thraldom 
and  is  now  wandering  in  a social  wilderness  like  lost  children.  The  Russians  are  a 
very  religious  people  and  naturally  a bright  people.  They  appeal  to  our  Christian 
charity  as  no  other  people  in  modern  times  have  done.  To  them  liberty  now  means 
license  to  do  whatever  their  selfish  desires  suggest.  They  need  to  learn  the  great 
principles  of  Christian  tolerance  and  self-restraint  and  justice  and  honesty.  They  need 
to  be  planted  on  the  solid  foundation  of  unchanging  truth.  The  future  of  Europe  very 
largely  depends  upon  recovering  this  great  people  of  185,000,000  souls  to  Christ.  There 
is  no  more  fruitful  missionary  field.  And  Italy  is  white  unto  the  harvest.  And  in 
Macedonia  and  Serbia  the  cry  is  coming  again,  as  it  did  to  Paul  nearly  nineteen 
hundred  years  ago:  “Come  over  and  help  us.”  The  opportunities  in  China  and  Brazil 

were  never  before  as  great  nor  the  needs  so  pressing. 

Our  government  is  consecrated  to  the  doctrine  that  liberty  shall  not  perish  from  the 
earth;  the  Church  is  consecrated  to  the  doctrine  to  tell  God’s  love,  God’s  compassion, 
God’s  wisdom,  and  God’s  gift  of  His  Son  to  the  whole  wide  world.  The  government 
has  called  upon  all  its  citizens  to  economize  in  wheat,  that  the  people  of  Europe 
may  have  bread;  we  call  upon  the  people  of  our  Church  to  economize  in  their  expendi- 
tures, that  the  souls  of  the  people  in  all  these  lands,  as  well  as  in  our  -own,  may  be  fed 
on  the  bread  that  came  down  from  heaven.  The  government  rightly  requires  that  we 
deny  ourselves  meat,  that  men  and  women  across  the  seas  perish  not;  we  should  deny 
ourselves  many  luxuries  and  comforts,  that  these  same  men  and  women  may  have  “the 
food  which  abideth  unto  eternal  life,”  which  the  Son  of  Man  pledged  us  to  give  them. 
The  government  has  withheld  from  us  sugar  that  we  did  not  need,  in  order  that  the 
bodies  of  our  allies  may  be  healthy  and  strong;  we,  as  Christians,  out  of  the  love  for 
our  Lord,  should  withhold  from  ourselves  useless  adornments,  that  the  lives  of  our 
broken  and  despairing  brothers  and  sisters  may  be  sweetened  by  “the  grace  that  was 
given  unto  us." 

In  the  midst  of  these  conditions  many  men  and  women  of  our  Church,  as  did  the 
little  company  of  prophets  and  teachers  at  Antioch,  have  been  listening  for  the  Holy 
Spirit  to  say  unto  them,  “Separate  us  unto  the  work  whereunto  thou  hast  called  us,” 
and  that  voice  has  been  heard.  Already  there  is  a sound  of  marching  in  the  tops  of 
the  mulberry  trees,  and  “Jehovah  has  gone  out  before  us.” 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Missions  in  1916  our  worthy  Secretary,  Dr.  W.  W. 
Pinson,  called  attention  to  the  fact  that  the  year  1919  would  be  the  centenary  of  the 
organization  of  a missionary  department  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  America 
and  suggested  that  proper  plans  be  inaugurated,  in  co-operation  with  our  brethren  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  for  an  advance  movement  along  all  missionary  lines 
in  connection  with  a proper  celebration  of  that  event.  A Centenary  Commission  was 
created,  and  a few  months  ago  it  called  upon  one  hundred  carefully  chosen  laymen  to 
meet  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  and  agree  upon  a program  commensurate  with  our  duty  and 
opportunities.  In  response  to  that  call  one  hundred  and  seventy-five  ministers  and 
laymen,  men  and  women,  gathered  from  every  part  of  our  territory  at  the  appointed 
time,  March  1 9.  The  Holy  Spirit  brooded  over  that  meeting.  Men  of  affairs  opened 
their  eyes  and  hearts  to  the  world’s  needs  and  went  to  their  knees  for  divine  guidance. 
Their  inquiry  was.  What  does  God  require  at  our  hands  in  this  great  crisis  in  the 
world’s  history?  They  concluded  that  the  amount  of  money  that  will  be  needed  for  the 
next  five  years  and  that  should  be  raised  by  our  Church  is  as  follows : 

First,  $2,850,000  to  maintain  our  work  among  the  mountain  peoples  and  the 
negroes  and  in  the  industrial  centers  and  to  inaugurate  plans  for  reaching  the  neglected 
peoples  in  the  great  cities  of  the  South. 

Second,  $2, 1 40,000  to  be  used  by  the  Board  of  Church  Extension  in  building 
churches  in  foreign  fields  and  in  building  churches  and  establishing  institutional  plants 
in  territory  in  the  United  States  that  is  distinctively  missionary. 

— ^ Third,  $2,500,000  to  be  raised  By” assessments  bylEe”Conference  Boards  of  Missions 


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of  the  several  Annual  Conferences  to  be  used  in  a more  adequate  support  of  the  home 
mission  fields  within  their  own  bounds. 

Fourth,  $7,870,000  for  a forward  movement  along  all  lines  in  missionary  work  in 
foreign  fields. 

Fifth,  $3,000,000  for  Woman’s  Work  in  the  Foreign  Department,  for  benighted 
womanhood. 

Sixth,  $1,290,000  for  the  Home  Mission  Department  of  Woman’s  Work,  in  estab- 
lishing and  enlarging  Wesley  Houses,  Bethlehem  Houses,  and  other  needed  equipment 
or  saving  women  in  our  own  land. 

Seventh,  $5,350,000  for  evangelistic  preaching  and  gospel  service  among  the  broken 
and  sorrowing  peoples  of  France,  Russia,  Italy,  Belgium,  and  Serbia,  and  other  work 
made  necessary  by  the  effects  of  the  war. 

These  seven  items,  amounting  to  $25,000,000,  or  $5,000,000  a year  for  five 
years,  beginning  with  1919,  are  in  addition  to  the  sum  of  about  $2,000,000  a year 
now  being  raised  by  missionary  assessments  and  specials  and  are  to  be  raised  by  voluntary 
subscriptions. 

It  is  a gigantic  task.  It  is  big  enough  and  comprehensive  enough  to  arouse  the 
admiration  and  enthusiasm  of  the  biggest  and  the  least  man  among  us.  The  One 
Hundred  on  a World  Program  were  of  the  opinion  that  it  could  be  accomplished  by 
much  prayer  and  much  preaching  on  stewardship.  They  have,  therefore,  made  inter- 
cession the  first  item  of  their  program,  stewardship  the  second  item,  and  the  raising  of 
this  great  Centenary  fund  the  third  item.  They  believe  that  such  a program  will  cause 
the  fires  of  a holy  Christian  enthusiasm  to  break  forth  into  a bright  flame  in  our  own 
land  and  will  be  the  cure  for  the  sordid  materialism  naturally  following  a great  war 
unless  the  Church  steps  out  with  renewed  consecration  to  God. 

The  world  is  sore  at  heart  and  full  of  suffering  and  sorrow.  Only  a resurrected 
Christ  can  save  it  from  utter  ruin.  Hie  gospel  that  saved  our  own  broken  Southland 
from  despair  at  the  close  of  the  War  between  the  States  can  again  save  our  beloved 
citizens  from  materialism  and  a sordid  selfishness,  and  it  can  cure  the  broken  peoples 
of  Europe  and  of  the  other  nations  of  the  world.  As  a Church  we  owe  it  to  America 
and,  above  all,  we  owe  it  to  our  Saviour  to  make  manifest  that  we  believe  that  Jesus 
Christ  is  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation  to  every  man  that  believeth.  The  spirit  of 
benevolence  and  helpfulness  is  abroad  in  the  land  as  never  before  in  our  history.  By 
voluntary  subscriptions  about  $150,000,000  has  been  raised  for  the  use  of  the  Red 
Cross  in  a single  year,  and  $52,000,000  has  been  raised  for  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work 
in  the  military  camps;  and  the  young  men  and  women  who  have  heard  the  voice 
of  humanity  and  the  voice  of  God  and  gone  forth  to  engage  in  loving  administration  to  the 
wounded  and  to  exalt  the  Christ  among  the  soldiers  have  not  only  won  our  enthusiasm 
and  admiration,  but  have  proved  a leaven  of  saving  grace  among  our  own  people  at 
home.  The  Church  of  God  cannot  be  less  heroic.  The  hour  has  struck  for  mighty 
things.  The  time  is  at  hand  when  the  Church  must  step  forth  in  power  and  with  a holy 
enthusiasm.  We  appeal  to  all  our  people,  small  and  great,  to  rally  to  this  Centenary 
Movement  and  demonstrate  that  the  Church  of  God  has  been  established  for  the  healing 
of  the  nations.  The  task  is  great,  but  our  great  Leader  declared  that  all  things  are 
possible  with  God.  We  therefore  recommend: 

1.  That  the  World  Program  of  the  Committee  of  One  Hundred  be  adopted  by 
this  General  Conference  as  the  program  for  the  whole  Church,  and  we  hereby  commit  into 
the  hands  of  the  Centenary  Commission  the  task  of  carrying  through  that  program. 

2.  We  request  that  each  Annual  Conference,  in  lieu  of  the  usual  Missionary  and 
Church  Extension  anniversaries,  set  aside  one  day  of  its  next  session  to  the  Centenary 
Movement  and  that,  beginning  at  ten  o’clock  on  said  day  and  contiuuing  throughout  the 
afternoon  and  evening,  the  Conference  session  be  devoted  to  promoting  this  program. 

Ten  per  cent,  of  the  Centenary  Fund  subscribed  and  paid  in  each  annual  Conference 
in  excess  of  the  regular  income  will  be  paid  to  each  Annual  Conference  Board  of  Missions 
by  the  Centenary  Commission. 


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Thirty-five  Millions  for  Missions 

The  Committee  on  Findings  of  the  Memphis  Meeting  of  One  Hundred  on  World 
Program  recommended  that  $35,000,000  be  raised  within  the  years  1919-23  for  mis- 
sions. This  report,  adopted  by  the  Committee  of  One  Hundred,  presented  to  Southern 
Methodism  a challenge  worthy  of  its  faith  and  traditions.  It  should  be  understood  that 
the  setting  of  this  financial  standard  of  $35,000,000  for  five  years,  or  $7,000,000  per 
year  for  the  next  five  years,  was  done  only  after  it  was  ascertained  by  a most  thorough 
and  scientific  survey  of  the  Home  and  Foreign  Mission  fields  that  this  amount  would  be 
necessary  for  the  maintenance  of  our  present  work  and  for  any  appreciable  advance  all 
along  the  line.  It  should  be  further  understood  that  this  $35,000,000  is  to  comprehend 
every  phase  of  missionary  endeavor  undertaken  by  the  whole  Church. 

ANALYSIS  OF  THE  $35,000,000 

The  $35,000,000  budget  is  made  up  as  follows: 

Present  Income  for  Missions,  $2,000,000  Per  Year,  $10,000,000  for 

Five  Years 

A careful  estimate  of  what  is  now  received  by  the  Church  through  its  usual  chan- 
nels for  missions  approximates  $2,000,000  per  year,  or  $10,000,000  for  the  five-year 
period,  1919-23.  In  making  up  the  budget  for  the  Missionary  Centenary  it  was  thought 
proper  that  the  amount  that  is  expected  from  yearly  income  should  be  included  in  the 
total  askings  of  the  Missionary  Centenary.  Thus  there  would  be  no  confusion  as  to  the 
real  task  before  the  Church.  The  yearly  income  includes  returns  from  the  assessments 
for  Home  and  Foreign  Missions,  specials  for  home  and  foreign  work,  amounts  from 
Conference  Missions  levied  by  Conference  Boards  of  Missions,  the  amounts  raised  by 
the  Woman’s  Missionary  Societies  for  Home  and  Foreign  Missions,  and  specials  raised 
by  the  same  societies  for  the  same  objects.  The  yearly  total  from  the  above-mentioned 
sources  approximates  $2,000,000,  or  $10,000,000  for  the  five  years. 

Home  Missions,  General  Board,  $2,850,000 

The  Home  Department  survey  calls  for  $2,850,000  for  the  five  years,  or  $570,000 
yearly.  It  is  contemplated  that  this  sum  shall  take  care  of  the  various  items  mentioned 
in  the  Home  Mission  survey,  such  as  the  maintenance  of  work  among  the  Indians,  the 
Negroes  of  the  South,  the  mountain  peoples,  textile  communities  of  the  South,  and  also 
the  inauguration  of  plans  to  reach  the  great  cities  of  the  South  for  Christ. 

Annual  Conference  Missions,  $2,500,000 

A survey  of  Conference  Missions  reveals  the  fact  that  the  inadequate  support  of  Con- 
ference Missionaries  is  one  that  calls  for  strenuous  and  immediate  action. 

Board  of  Church  Extension,  $2,140,000 

Churches  in  the  foreign  fields  are  to  be  built.  Churches  and  institutional  plants  in 
territory  that  is  distinctively  missionary  in  the  United  States  must  be  erected.  There- 
fore a fund  of  $ 1 , 1 40,000  for  special  fields  is  called  for.  Further,  the  necessity  of  having 
a loan  fund  with  which  to  lend  sums  to  new  missionary  enterprises  is  urgent.  With  assist- 
ance from  such  a fund,  many  a worthy  missionary  cause  could  get  a start  which  would 
otherwise  be  compelled  to  wait.  Therefore  a loan  fund  of  $ 1 ,000,000  is  placed  on  the 
budget  for  this  urgent  need,  making  a total  of  $2,140,000.  These  amounts  are  to  be 
raised  by  the  Board  of  Church  Extension. 


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Foreign  Missions,  General  Work,  $7,870,000 

A complete  survey  of  the  seven  Foreign  Mission  fields  calls  for  an  outlay  of  men 
and  equipment  to  an  amount  approximating  $1,600,000  per  year  for  the  Foreign  Depart- 
ment of  the  General  Board.  A forward  movement  all  along  the  line  calls  for  the  equip- 
ment, up  to  a standard  of  efficiency,  of  all  the  foreign  work.  The  call  to  extend  the  bor- 
ders of  the  kingdom  is  not  more  pressing  than  the  one  to  equip  and  adequately  man  the  terri- 
tory already  occupied. 

Foreign  Missions,  Work,  $3,000,000 

The  surveys  from  the  Foreign  Work  of  the  Woman’s  Council  call  for  $600,000  per 
year  in  equipment  and  new  missionaries.  Benighted  womanhood  in  the  foreign  fields 
calls  for  a great  and  sustained  effort  on  the  part  of  the  Woman’s  Department  for  the 
foreign  fields. 

Home  Missions,  Woman’s  Work,  $1,290,000 


The  Flome  Missions  Department  of  the  Woman’s  Work  calls  for  a program  to  ex- 
tend the  number  of  Wesley  Houses,  Bethlehem  Houses,  and  other  features  of  the  work 
of  that  department.  To  carry  forward  these  newly  outlined  plans  $1,290,000  is  nec- 
essary. 

$5,350,000  War  Work  Fund 

Great  fields  for  service,  with  unlimited  opportunities  to  preach  the  gospel,  will  be 
found  in  Europe  and  the  Near  East  now,  and  especially  at  the  close  of  the  great  World 
War  there  will  be  inviting  fields  in  Italy,  Russia,  France,  Belgium,  and  Serbia.  There 
will  be  a great  demand  for  service  in  “camp  and  field,  at  home  and  abroad.”  The  Com- 
mittee of  One  Hundred  on  World  Program  called  upon  the  Church  to  raise  for  this 
work  a fund  of  over  $1 ,000,000  a year  for  five  years,  thus  rounding  out  the  $35,000,000. 


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